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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 keep out the grand Enemy to this, standing thus steadfastly, and that's Hypocrisy. If a mans heart be unsound, let his show and appearance be what it will be, all will come to nought▪ as in Herod, Judas, &c. If an Apple be corrupt and rotten at heart, though the rind, and outside be never so lovely and specious, 'twill not long last: the corrupt inside will mar the fine outside in the end.
2. Faith doth keep out the grand Enemy to this, standing thus stedfastly, and that's Hypocrisie. If a mans heart bee unsound, let his shew and appearance be what it will bee, all will come to nought▪ as in Herod, Judas, &c. If an Apple bee corrupt and rotten at heart, though the rind, and outside bee never so lovely and specious, 'twill not long last: the corrupt inside will mar the fine outside in the end.
An Hypocrite is but an Apostate cased; and an Apostate is but an Hypocrite uncased.
An Hypocrite is but an Apostata cased; and an Apostata is but an Hypocrite uncased.
3. Faith establishes the heart against fears of men; the frowns and menaces of men.