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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.
6. Faith doth maintain in the heart an holy fear of falling; which is a great means to preserve from falling, Jer. 32. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Such a Fear it keeps as may curb and keep under the flesh: but not discourage and weaken the Spirit. An industrious fear, not a discouraging fear: a faithful fear, not a despairing fear. A fear joined with Faith, and a Faith mingled with fear. A man may be fearful, and faithful. Fearful in himself, faithful in Christ: weak in himself, strong in Christ.
6. Faith doth maintain in the heart an holy fear of falling; which is a great means to preserve from falling, Jer. 32. I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from mee. Such a Fear it keeps as may curb and keep under the flesh: but not discourage and weaken the Spirit. An industrious fear, not a discouraging fear: a faithful fear, not a despairing fear. A fear joyned with Faith, and a Faith mingled with fear. A man may bee fearful, and faithful. Fearful in himself, faithful in Christ: weak in himself, strong in Christ.
There are four fears which Faith casts out, 1. A servile, and legal Fear. 2. A distrustful Fear. 3. A despairing and discouraging Fear. 4. A careless Fear.
As security is fearless, so sometimes Fear is careless, if it be excessive.
As security is fearless, so sometimes Fear is careless, if it bee excessive.