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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.
It is Faith which guides the heart, in these difficult cases. It is an Heart-guiding-Grace. And this is the way.
Faith doth reject the wisdom of the flesh, and goes by Gods light, It shuts our eyes, and walks by Gods light. It follows God, as the blind man follows his Guide, all his days. He who makes Gods Word all his Reason, shall have God a Counsellor. Faith will not own the wisdom of the flesh. — the carnal mind is enmity ⟨p. 126⟩to God. It will not be subject. It is full of contumacy and stoutness against God and his ways.
Faith doth reject the wisdome of the flesh, and goes by Gods light, It shuts our eyes, and walks by Gods light. It follows God, as the blinde man follows his Guide, all his dayes. Hee who makes Gods Word all his Reason, shall have God a Counsellor. Faith will not own the wisdome of the flesh. — the carnal minde is enmity ⟨p. 126⟩to God. It will not bee subject. It is full of contumacy and stoutness against God and his wayes.
Faith will neither own the Flesh, as a King, nor as a Counsellor. As it will not obey the commands of the flesh, so it will not follow the counsels of the flesh.