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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.
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.
4. A Jealous Fear over our own hearts. They are deceitful, and we had need to be jealous over them, and watch. Think not thy self so far at distance from any sin, but thou mayest fall into it, if God keep thee not.
4. A Jealous Fear over our own hearts. They are deceitful, and wee had need to bee jealous over them, and watch. Think not thy self so far at distance from any sin, but thou mayest fall into it, if God keep thee not.
Who could be further from Drunkenness than Noah? who was the only sober man, in the drunken old World. Who from Incest than Lot? the only chaste man in Sodom. Who from Murder, than David? Whose heart smote him for but cutting off the lap of Sauls garment. Who from denying of Christ, than was Peter? who had rather dye with him, than forsake him. And therefore we had need to be jealous, and watch over our own hearts.