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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.
My Brethren; we shall meet with many exigents in our way to Heaven. And, if Faith do not guide, we are sure to go amiss.
My Brethren; wee shall meet with many exigents in our way to Heaven. And, if Faith do not guide, wee are sure to go amiss.
You see what an Exigent Esther was put unto: Either to neglect duty, or to endanger her life. She put her life in her hand, for the good of the Church of God. If she had now consulted with flesh and blood; if she had followed the guidance of Reason, she had been mis-led.
You see what an Exigent Esther was put unto: Either to neglect duty, or to endanger her life. Shee put her life in her hand, for the good of the Church of God. If shee had now consulted with flesh and blood; if shee had followed the guidance of Reason, shee had been mis-led.
No doubt but sense and Reason would have told her, that it had been best, not to hazard her self, and put her life in jeopardy: but consulting with Faith, and following the guidance thereof, she was resolved to do the duty, though see perished in the doing thereof: And it was her safety.
No doubt but sense and Reason would have told her, that it had been best, not to hazzard her self, and put her life in jeopardy: but consulting with Faith, and following the guidance thereof, she was resolved to do the duty, though see perished in the doing thereof: And it was her safety.