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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.
Less Comfort may serve a man to live by, than to dye by: because, whiles a man lives, other things come in, to make up the want of Comfort: every thing casts in something, to make the soul a stock of Comfort. But if this will not do; if a man cannot piece up his Comforts with other things: yet, whiles a man lives, there's hope and expectation still of more Comfort.
Lesse Comfort may serve a man to live by, than to dye by: because, whiles a man lives, other things come in, to make up the want of Comfort: every thing casts in something, to make the soul a stock of Comfort. But if this will not do; if a man cannot peece up his Comforts with other things: yet, whiles a man lives, there's hope and expectation still of more Comfort.
But, when a man comes to dye, that hope is gone. There's no hope then of ever getting more. And this is a sad condition.
And, My Brethren, It is a thing which God doth often deny at death: because we have been no more solicitous to clear our Evidences in our life. I say, God doth now withhold the Comfort of Faith; because we have neglected to clear our Evidence of Faith; which is a sad condition. Though the condition of the soul be never the less safe: yet the condition is less comfortable to our souls.
And, My Brethren, It is a thing which God doth often deny at death: because wee have been no more solicitous to clear our Evidences in our life. I say, God doth now withhold the Comfort of Faith; because wee have neglected to clear our Evidence of Faith; which is a sad condition. Though the condition of the soul bee never the less safe: yet the condition is less comfortable to our souls.