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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.
It was a duty which the Apostle did commend to the Corinthians, 2 Cor. 13.5. — Examine your selves, whether ye be in the Faith; prove your own selves. And it is that, which, after this long discourse of Faith I would commend to you all. That you would put your selves to the Trial. Examine whether you have Faith or no. Therefore hath God given us a faculty different from all Creatures, whereby we may reflect upon our selves. Many there are, who will winnow others, but not sift themselves: spell others, but not read themselves: searching others rather than themselves. But let it be your care every one to prove and examine himself.
It was a duty which the Apostle did commend to the Corinthians, 2 Cor. 13.5. — Examine your selves, whether yee bee in the Faith; prove your own selves. And it is that, which, after this long discourse of Faith I would commend to you all. That you would put your selves to the Tryal. Examine whether you have Faith or no. Therefore hath God given us a faculty different from all Creatures, whereby wee may reflect upon our selves. Many there are, who will winnow others, but not sift themselves: spel others, but not read themselves: searching others rather than themselves. But let it bee your care every one to prove and examine himself.
The encouragement to this duty I will take from these two grounds.
The incouragement to this duty I will take from these two grounds.
1. It is a thing possible to be known, whether you are Believers, yea or no.