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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.
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.
You see an example of this in Balaam; in Saul sparing of Agag, and the best of the flock: in sacrificing before Samuel came to him. But I'll name but one.
You see an example of this in Balaam; in Saul sparing of Agag, and the best of the flock: in sacrificing before Samuel came to him. But I'le name but one.