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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.
5. Is it, because thou art under some present Temptations? why St. James saith — Count it exceeding joy, great joy, when ye fall into diverse temptations.
5. Is it, because thou art under some present Temptations? why St. James saith — Count it exceeding joy, great joy, when yee fall into diverse temptations.
There is matter of Joy as well as of Sorrow, if by Faith thou wouldest but see what God aims at.
1. It may be, for trial of Grace; as in Abraham's and Jobs case; whose temptation was of purpose to try and justify his Graces.
1. It may bee, for trial of Grace; as in Abrahams and Jobs case; whose temptation was of purpose to try and justifie his Graces.
2. It may be, For exercise of Grace, of Faith, of Patience, &c.