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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.
If indeed, we seek as Balaam, with a double heart, or as the Children of Israel did, Jer. 42. who asked counsel, but were resolved of their way; we then may miscarry. But he who seeks with an humble and upright heart, that asks the way to Zion, with his face thitherward, resolved to go, as God directs, Such will God direct in his way: such he will guide in all the ways of Judgement.
If indeed, wee seek as Balaam, with a double heart, or as the Children of Israel did, Jer. 42. who asked counsel, but were resolved of their way; wee then may miscarry. But hee who seeks with an humble and upright heart, that asks the way to Sion, with his face thitherward, resolved to go, as God directs, Such will God direct in his way: such hee will guide in all the wayes of Judgement.
As the Moon by darting her beams and influence into the Sea, doth move that great body backward and forward; which they say, is the cause of the ebbings and flowings of the Sea: so God doth in difficult cases, dart such a beam of light into the Soul, such strong influences into the Spirit, as doth carry the soul the way it should go.
A man may follow his own wisdom and miscarry: but he that shuts his eyes and follows God, is sure not to be mis-led. He, who rejects the counsel of the flesh, and is resolved to walk by the direction of the Spirit, though never so unlikely to flesh and blood, is sure to go right.
A man may follow his own wisdome and miscarry: but hee that shuts his eyes and follows God, is sure not to bee mis-led. Hee, who rejects the counsel of the flesh, and is resolved to walk by the direction of the Spirit, though never so unlikely to flesh and bloud, is sure to go right.