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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.
And, as at all times, so especially at three times. It is exceeding difficult.
1. In times of Humiliation. 2. In times of Temptation. 3. In times of Desertion.
1. In times of Humiliation. As some call evil good: so thou calls good evil. Now, As some take the shadow for the substance▪ so thou the substance for the shadow. As some depend on false grounds: so thou denyest the true. As some feed, and cherish matter of false comfort: so thou feedest on matter of discouragement. Some heat themselves by a painted fire, Isa. 50.11. and thou quenchest the sparks of Gods own kindling, if the Spirit of God break not in at that time.
1. In times of Humiliation. As some call evil good: so thou calls good evill. Now, As some take the shadow for the substance▪ so thou the substance for the shadow. As some depend on false grounds: so thou denyest the true. As some feed, and cherish matter of false comfort: so thou feedest on matter of discouragement. Some heat themselves by a painted fire, Isa. 50.11. and thou quenchest the sparks of Gods own kindling, if the Spirit of God break not in at that time.