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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.
Sure he, who trusts God for his soul, will trust God for his Body. Faith doth not single and choose out its Object; to believe this, not that, but all coming from the same Truth,1 the same God; it believes one as well as another. He who depends on God for the many, will depend on him for the less: He who trusts God for pounds, will trust him also for pence. — If I tell you earthly things (saith Christ to Nicodemus) and you believe not: how will you believe, if I tell you heavenly things? So, if you will not believe God for earthly things; how can you believe him for heavenly things? If not for sustentation: how then for salvation?
Sure hee, who trusts God for his soul, will trust God for his Body. Faith doth not single and chuse out its Object; to beleeve this, not that, but all comming from the same Truth,1 the same God; it beleeves one as well as another. Hee who depends on God for the many, will depend on him for the less: Hee who trusts God for pounds, will trust him also for pence. — If I tell you earthly things (saith Christ to Nicodemus) and you beleeve not: how will you beleeve, if I tell you heavenly things? So, if you will not beleeve God for earthly things; how can you beleeve him for heavenly things? If not for sustentation: how then for salvation?
- 1Fides non eligit Objectum.
3. Faith doth stablish the heart against the Fear of Death; the King of Fears, as Job calls it: And of all terribles, the most terrible, as the Philosopher speaks. Unbelief doth slay the heart with fears. A man, that knows not what shall become of his soul to all eternity: no marvel if he be afraid to dye.
3. Faith doth stablish the heart against the Fear of Death; the King of Fears, as Job calls it: And of all terribles, the most terrible, as the Philosopher speaks. Unbeleef doth slay the heart with fears. A man, that knows not what shall become of his soul to all eternity: no marvel if hee bee afraid to dye.