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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.
There are two things Faith establishes the soul against, 1. Against Fears. 2. Against Falling.
1. Faith establisheth the heart against fears. When a man believes not, he is nothing but fears and scruples: But, when once Faith comes, it doth answer all cases; silences all doubts; stablisheth the heart against all fears.
1. Faith establisheth the heart against fears. When a man beleeves not, hee is nothing but fears and scruples: But, when once Faith comes, it doth answer all cases; silences all doubts; stablisheth the heart against all fears.
There are five Fears which Faith doth establish the heart against, 1. The Fear of Men. 2. The Fear of Want. 3. The Fear of Death. 4. The Fear of Hell. 5. The Fear of Judgement.
1. Faith establisheth the heart against humane Fears, the fear of men. Faith will banish these unlawful and tyrannical fears. It will not suffer them to enter the Throne, and take possession of the heart,