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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.
I conceive, There's a great Error committed in the laying down of Evidences, to take an Evidence from the highest degree of Faith.
As when we should lay down an Evidence of Faith, we take our Evidence from Assurance. This is a great Error. By this means we shall cast out many thousands, who are true Believers, and yet want Assurance.
As when wee should lay down an Evidence of Faith, wee take our Evidence from Assurance. This is a great Error. By this means wee shall cast out many thousands, who are true Beleevers, and yet want Assurance.
And yet my care shall be, as not to quench the smoking flax; so not to cherish a false flame: as not to discourage the meanest; ⟨p. 141⟩so not to encourage the strongest, if false: as not to discountenance a true, so not to countenance a false. But that the false may have no Comfort; the true no discouragement.
And yet my care shall bee, as not to quench the smoaking flax; so not to cherish a false flame: as not to discourage the meanest; ⟨p. 141⟩so not to encourage the strongest, if false: as not to discountenance a true, so not to countenance a false. But that the false may have no Comfort; the true no discouragement.