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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.
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.1 One absurdity granted, multitudes follow.
The Nazarite was forbidden Wine; and withal that hee must not taste the Kernel of the Grape, least that might bee an occasion to draw on the other. Wee have a sad example in Monicha, Augustines Mother. Shee looked on the Wine in the Cup; from looking, shee fell to liking; from liking, to tasting; from tasting, to sipping; from that to drinking, and so to Excesse. Sins in Divinity are like absurdities in Philosophy.1 One absurdity granted, multitudes follow.
- 1Uno absurdo dato multa sequuntur.
2. Such a Fear as makes us to go out of our selves, and lean and rely wholly on Christ. A Fear of our selves, of our own strength, &c.
Alas! What are we to Adam? to David? to Solomon? to Hezekiah? Peter? men of sweet and familiar acquaintance with God. Yet see what Testimonies of mens frailties they left behind them. And all this to teach us to maintain an holy Fear and Jealousy over our own selves; that we might go out of our selves, and lean all upon Christ, without whom we cannot be sure.