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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.
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.
2. It's necessary in respect of our more lively obedience. The knowledge of this, will make us lay out our selves for God. It will make us industrious and active, in all holy Obedience. It will make us burn out, not smother out: wear out, not rust out. It will make a man a Volunteer in Gods work: to sweat and take pains in the Vineyard of the Lord.