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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.
In the laying down of which, that I may not err, I shall desire to go by these two Rules.
In the laying down of which, that I may not erre, I shall desire to go by these two Rules.
1. The grand Rule is, the Word of God. The Book shall try you. That Book that shall save or damn you at the last day; shall try you now whether you have Faith or no.
And I hope, if the Word convince you, that you have not Faith; you will subscribe to the conviction. If the Word say it, I hope you will conclude it. But, whether you will or no, That which the Word saith is true. That conviction which the Word doth fasten upon you, shall lye upon you at the great day, if now you get it not off.
2. The Second Rule I shall desire to go by, is this, to lay down such Evidences as are universal; and belong to all Believers, weak, as well as strong; the least degree of saving Faith, as well as the highest measure of it. I shall desire so to comfort the strong, as not to discourage the weak: so to satisfy the strong, as I may also establish the weak. For