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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.
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.
Alas! What are wee 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 Jelousy over our own selves; that wee might go out of our selves, and lean all upon Christ, without whom wee cannot bee sure.
3. An Industrious Fear. Such a Fear as puts us upon all holy duties, and means for our establishment to preserve us. God promised to add fifteen years to Hezekiahs life; yet he was to preserve this life, and uphold it, with food and diet, and other necessaries for life: so God promised we shall not fall: yet we must be conscionable in the use of all good means, whereby we may stand; otherwise we tempt God: and just it is with God to let us fall, if we neglect Prayer, and the rest of his Ordinances appointed by him for our perseverance.
3. An Industrious Fear. Such a Fear as puts us upon all holy duties, and means for our establishment to preserve us. God promised to adde fifteen years to Hezekiahs life; yet hee was to preserve this life, and uphold it, with food and dyet, and other necessaries for life: so God promised wee shall not fall: yet wee must bee conscionable in the use of all good means, whereby wee may stand; otherwise wee tempt God: and just it is with God to let us fall, if wee neglect Prayer, and the rest of his Ordinances appointed by him for our perseverane.