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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 it fairs far otherwise with this our Reverend Brother, he hath attained a double happiness which few arrive unto. These ensuing Sermons were written out in a fair and legible Character, and prepared for the Press in his life time, and wherein they were defective, they have been supplied and made up, by an able, learned, and judicious Friend; so that the Reader may assure himself that they are no whit inferior to those other Books, which he himself set forth, and that these Fatherless children, suffer no considerable prejudice by their Authors death.
But it fairs far otherwise with this our Reverend Brother, hee hath attained a double happiness which few arrive unto. These ensuing Sermons were written out in a fair and legible Character, and prepared for the Press in his life time, and wherein they were defective, they have been supplied and made up, by an able, learned, and judicious Friend; so that the Reader may assure himself that they are no whit inferior to those other Books, which he himself set forth, and that these Fatherless children, suffer no considerable prejudice by their Authors death.
The Subjects treated on in this Book, are all of them of singular use and benefit. Here you have exactly proved, That Sin is the greatest of Evils, and therefore ⟨image 4⟩calls for the greatest sorrow, the greatest hatred, the greatest care to avoid it, and to be rid of it. That the heart of Jesus Christ is exceedingly taken with his Church and people, and that therefore his people ought to be exceedingly in love with him. Here you have the Nature, Necessity, and Difficulty of Faith, learnedly and practically handled, and especially the Privileges and Royalties of it. Here also is showed the Cause and Cure of Hypocrisy; And how far a man may go towards Heaven, and yet fall short of it.
The Subjects treated on in this Book, are all of them of singular use and benefit. Here you have exactly proved, That Sin is the greatest of Evils, and therefore ⟨image 4⟩