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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.
No doubt, if he had consulted with flesh and blood, and carnal reason, they would have bid him to spare his Son: but following the guidance of Faith, he was willing to sacrifice his Son, Heb. 11.17. — By Faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up his Son Isaac: of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy seed be called. Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, &c.
No doubt, if hee had consulted with flesh and bloud, and carnal reason, they would have bid him to spare his Son: but following the guidance of Faith, hee was willing to sacrifice his Son, Heb. 11.17. — By Faith Abraham, when hee was tryed, offered up his Son Isaac: of whom it was said, that in Isaac shall thy seed bee called. Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, &c.
So it was Faith which guided Moses to leave the pomp and glory of Pharaohs Court, and to choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt, Heb. 11.24. If he had followed the guidance of Reason, or sense, he had miscarried. That would have told him, that he was to regard himself, and his present happiness, and not throw himself out of all. But then he had been mis-led. But following the guidance of Faith he forsakes all.
So it was Faith whic guided Moses to leave the pomp and glory of Pharaohs Court, and to chuse rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to injoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt, Heb. 11.24. If hee had followed the guidance of Reason, or sense, hee had miscarryed. That would have told him, that hee was to regard himself, and his present happiness, and not throw himself out of all. But then hee had been mis-led. But following the guidance of Faith hee forsakes all.