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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.
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.
Who could bee 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 wee had need to bee jealous, and watch over our own hearts.
There is no place so good, but we may offend in it. As the Angels in Heaven, Adam in Paradise. There is no company so good, but we may sin in it. As did Sarah in the Angels company, Judas in Christs.
There is no place so good, but wee may offend in it. As the Angels in Heaven, Adam in Paradise. There is no company so good, but wee may sin in it. As did Sarah in the Angels company, Judas in Christs.