The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

The Subjects treated on in this Book, are all of them of singular use and benefit. Here you have exactly proved, That Sin is the greatest of Evils, and therefore ⟨image 4⟩calls for the greatest sorrow, the greatest hatred, the greatest care to avoid it, and to be rid of it. That the heart of Jesus Christ is exceedingly taken with his Church and people, and that therefore his people ought to be exceedingly in love with him. Here you have the Nature, Necessity, and Difficulty of Faith, learnedly and practically handled, and especially the Privileges and Royalties of it. Here also is showed the Cause and Cure of Hypocrisy; And how far a man may go towards Heaven, and yet fall short of it.

The Subjects treated on in this Book, are all of them of singular use and benefit. Here you have exactly proved, That Sin is the greatest of Evils, and therefore ⟨image 4⟩calls for the greatest sorrow, the greatest hatred, the greatest care to avoid it, and to be rid of it. That the heart of Jesus Christ is exceedingly taken with his Church and people, and that therfore his people ought to be exceedingly in love with him. Here you have the Nature, Necessity, and Difficulty of Faith, learnedly and practically handled, and especially the Priviledges and Royalties of it. Here also is shewed the Cause and Cure of Hypocrisie; And how far a man may go towards Heaven, and yet fall short of it.

The truth is, As the rude Satire in Plutarch, who strove to make a dead man stand upright, had so much wit as to say, Deest aliquid intus, there wants a principle within to enable him to stand. So may I truly say of him that shall read this Book, and not be very well pleased with the matter therein contained, Deest aliquid intus, he wants a principle of grace within, to cause him to close with such wholesome, spiritual, and heavenly truths.

The truth is, As the rude Satyre in Plutarch, who strove to make a dead man stand upright, had so much wit as to say, Deest aliquid intus, there wants a principle within to inable him to stand. So may I truly say of him that shall read this Book, and not be very well pleased with the matter therein contained, Deest aliquid intus, hee wants a principle of grace within, to cause him to close with such wholesome, spiritual, and heavenly truths.