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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.
Indeed all ages give reports to us of many, who have been eminent in Profession, and yet have come to nought. Some fallen from Grace to baseness; some fallen from Grace to bitterness; some from Grace to viciousness; some from Grace to maliciousness: But these were never true Believers. A Star fallen is not a Star.1 —They went out from us, because they were not of us: for had they been of us, they would have continued with us, 1 Joh. 2.19. It is the evil heart of Unbelief that causeth them to depart from the living God, Heb 3.12.
Indeed all ages give reports to us of many, who have been eminent in Profession, and yet have come to nought. Some fallen from Grace to basenesse; some fallen from Grace to bitternesse; some from Grace to vitiousness; some from Grace to malitiousness: But these were never true Beleevers. A Star fallen is not a Star.1 —They went out from us, because they were not of us: for had they been of us, they would have continued with us, 1 Joh. 2.19. It is the evil heart of Unbelief that causeth them to depart from the living God, Heb 3.12.
- 1Stella caden• non est Stella.
Where there is true Faith, there is stability. Faith doth establish the heart from falling.