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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.
1. A Child of God may lose all the comforts of spiritual life: yet not spiritual life it self. He may bring himself into such a sad condition by sin, that he may sin away all the comforts of this life. Thus David, Psal. 51.— Restore to me the joy of thy Salvation. He had not lost life, but the comforts of it; and desires they may be restored. A man may out-live the comforts of life: this is a sad thing to out-live comforts here, but Faith, at least, layeth the grounds of those comforts that are endless.
1. A Child of God may lose all the comforts of spiritual life: yet not spiritual life it self. Hee may bring himself into such a sad condition by sin, that hee may sin away all the comforts of this life. Thus David, Psal. 51.— Restore to mee the joy of thy Salvation. Hee had not lost life, but the comforts of it; and desires they may bee restored. A man may out-live the comforts of life: this is a sad thing to out-live comforts here, but Faith, at least, layeth the grounds of those comforts that are endless.
2. A man may lose all the Vigorous and Powerful Operations of Grace, and Life: yet not life it self. It may be with a Child of God, as with a man in a dead Swoon; though there be life in him; yet the operations of life are but little discerned. It's not with him, as it was wont to be. He thinks to go out (as sometimes Sampson) in prayer, &c. but his strength is gone from him, as his was. But his life is hid with Christ in God, as the Apostle hath it, Col. 3.3.
2. A man may lose all the Vigorous and Powerful Operations of Grace, and Life: yet not life it self. It may bee with a Child of God, as with a man in a dead Swoon; though there bee life in him; yet the operations of life are but little discerned. It's not with him, as it was wont to bee. Hee thinks to go out (as sometimes Sampson) in prayer, &c. but his strength is gone from him, as his was. But his life is hid with Christ in God, as the Apostle hath it,