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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.
2. Faith doth establish us against the Fear of Want. Many there are that fear to out-live their labours, to out-live their Riches, their Comforts. Oh! say they, I shall one day want, and be in misery.
2. Faith doth establish us against the Fear of Want. Many there are that fear to out-live their labours, to out-live their Riches, their Comforts. Oh! say they, I shall one day want, and bee in misery.
Now Faith settles the soul against these fears. Why, will Faith say, hath not God said, — The Lions shall hunger and suffer want. (That is, as the Septuagint read it) the mighty Nimrods, the great ones of the World, who have their bags full: They shall sooner want, than they that fear the Lord, shall want any thing that's good. Why will Faith say, — Doth God clothe the Lilies, feed the Ravens; and will he not take care for thee? Mat. 6.24. to the 34. — what? hath not God engaged himself to bear thy charges to Heaven? Hath he not promised to give thee all things necessary both for life and godliness? not only for Godliness, for Spirituals: but for Life too, for Temporals?
Now Faith settles the soul against these fears. Why, will Faith say, hath not God said, — The Lions shall hunger and suffer want. (That is, as the Septuagint read it) the mighty Nimrods, the great ones of the World, who have their baggs full: They shall sooner want, than they that fear the Lord, shall want any thing that's good. Why will Faith say, — Doth God cloathe the Lillies, feed the Ravens; and will hee not take care for thee? Mat. 6.24. to the 34. — what? hath not God ingaged himself to bear thy charges to Heaven? Hath hee not promised to give thee all things necessary both for life and godliness? not only for Godliness, for Spirituals: but for Life too, for Temporals?