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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.
But when God hath given a man the assurance of a better life; when a man hath his hope in his hand, his evidences sealed; Oh! then death is not terrible: There will be a willing Resignation of the soul into Gods hands.
But when God hath given a man the assurance of a better life; when a man hath his hope in his hand, his evidences sealed; Oh! then death is not terrible: There will bee a willing Resignation of the soul into Gods hands.
It's true, in some case, He that believes maketh not haste, but here, the more we believe, the more haste we make to be with God.
I'ts true, in some case, Hee that beleeves maketh not haste, but here, the more wee beleeve, the more haste wee make to bee with God.
4. Faith Stablisheth the heart against the Fear of Hell. Faith ⟨p. 130⟩knows who was in pretium, as well as in premium, and beholds Christ not only in Premium, to entitle us to Heaven; but in pretium, as the price of our Redemption, to free us from Hell. As by his Active Obedience he answered Gods commanding and remunerative Justice: So by his Passive Obedience he answered Gods condemning and vindictive Justice, freeing us from that wrath and misery, which otherwise we should unavoidably have fallen into.
4. Faith Stablisheth the heart against the Fear of Hell. Faith ⟨p. 130⟩knows who was in pretium, as well as in premium, and beholds Christ not only in Premium, to intitle us to Heaven; but in pretium, as the price of our Redemption, to free us from Hel. As by his Active Obedience hee answered Gods commanding and remunerative Justice: So by his Passive Obedience hee answered Gods condemning and vindictive Justice, freeing us from that wrath and misery, which otherwise wee should unavoidably have fallen into.