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The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises
The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And therefore how blame-worthy are they, who disquiet themselves with needless perplexities? and lay the burden of sorrow on themselves, which God doth not?
Let us examine the grounds of these sorrows, and arraign them before the Bar of right Reason. What is it that troubles thee?
1. Is it thy former sins? why should these trouble thee? God hath pardoned them. And wilt thou bring the old guilt upon thy conscience again, which God hath cleared and pardoned? wilt thou bind, when God hath loosed? condemn, when he hath absolved?
1. Is it thy former sins? why should these trouble thee? God hath pardoned them. And wilt thou bring the old guilt upon thy conscience again, which God hath cleared and pardoned? wilt thou binde, when God hath loosed? condemn, when hee hath absolved?
2. Is it thy present Corruption? God hath promised to subdue it.—Sin shall have no more dominion over you. He hath promised to purge, to purify: He came with Refiners fire, and Fullers soap,