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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.
Will you sport with poison? will you sport your selves with Hell? nay worse, Will you recreate your selves, with destroying your selves? will you sport your selves with that, which was so bitter to Christ? and will be so to thee, if ever thou be pardoned.
Will you sport with poyson? will you sport your selves with Hell? nay worse, Will you recreate your selves, with destroying your selves? will you sport your selves with that, which was so bitter to Christ? and will be so to thee, if ever thou be pardoned.
Who would sport at that, which is the misery of lost men and Devils, both here, and in Hell to eternity?
One would think this poor sport and recreation, to tear in pieces the flesh, and wound, and shed the blood of A Stranger, of An Enemy; but how much more of Our Dearest Friend?
Thou, who sportest at sin, dost so with Christ, sportest thy self in killing Christ, crucifying Christ, tearing the flesh of Christ again. Every oath is a dagger to his heart, as the spear to his side again.