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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.
The like of Balaam. Either he must forsake the wages of Unrighteousness, or curse the People: but he had more desire of mans reward, than he had Faith to expect God, and so he miscarried.
The like of Balaam. Either hee must forsake the wages of Unrighteousness, or curse the People: but hee had more desire of mans reward, than hee had Faith to expect God, and so hee miscarryed.
And, my Brethren, such like straits we may meet withal in our way to Heaven. And, if we follow not the Guidance of Faith, we are sure to be mis-led.
And, my Brethren, such like straits wee may meet withall in our way to Heaven. And, if wee follow not the Guidance of Faith, wee are sure to bee mis-led.
It hath been the ordinary choice that the Saints have been put to, Either forsake thy God, or forsake thy Goods: Either leave Christ, or leave thy Comforts: Either renounce Christ, or lose thy Friends, thy Father, thy Mother; nay, thy liberty, thy life. To these exigencies and straits Gods people have been driven. And had they not had Faith, they had surely been mis-led: but having Faith, it guided them to suffer loss of friends, loss of goods, loss of liberty, loss of life it self for Christ: as you see up and down, in Abraham, in Moses, in Jeremiah, in Paul, and the rest of the Apostles; who accounted not their lives dear to them, for Christ.
It hath been the ordinary choice that the Saints have been put to, Either forsake thy God, or forsake thy Goods: Either leave Christ, or leave thy Comforts: Either renounce Christ, or lose thy Friends, thy Father, thy Mother; nay, thy liberty, thy life. To these exigencies and straits Gods people have been driven. And had they not had Faith, they had surely been mis-led: but having Faith, it guided them to suffer losse of friends, loss of goods, loss of liberty, loss of life it self for Christ: as you see up and down, in Abraham, in Moses, in Jeremy, in Paul, and the rest of the Apostles; who accounted not their lives dear to them, for Christ.