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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.
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.
There are also four Fears which Faith retains.
1. An awful Fear. Such a Fear as restrains from adventuring on occasions of sinning. It is as bad Divinity to grant the occasion, and deny the sin, as it is Logic, to grant the Premises, and deny the conclusion.
1. An aweful Fear. Such a Fear as restrains from adventuring on occasions of sinning. It is as bad Divinity to grant the occasion, and deny the sin, as it is Logick, to grant the Premises, and deny the conclusion.
The Nazarite was forbidden Wine; and withal that he must not taste the Kernel of the Grape, least that might be an occasion to draw on the other. We have a sad example in Monica, Augustine's Mother. She looked on the Wine in the Cup; from looking, she fell to liking; from liking, to tasting; from tasting, to sipping; from that to drinking, and so to Excess. Sins in Divinity are like absurdities in Philosophy.