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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.
2. The desires of a wicked man, of an Unbelieving man after Christ, they are transient, not permanent desires: which may be in times of trouble, in a storm; cares not if he have him as a shelter, under some rack of conscience, when he lies on his sick-bed. But these continue not. No sooner the storm is blown over, but the desire is gone. Or in a passion, when he is in a good mood, as Balaam desired to dye the death of the Righteous: so he, after a Sermon, &c.
2. The desires of a wicked man, of an Unbeleeving man after Christ, they are transient, not permanent desires: which may bee in times of trouble, in a storm; cares not if hee have him as a shelter, under some rack of conscience, when hee lies on his sick-bed. But these continue not. No sooner the storm is blown over, but the desire is gone. Or in a passion, when hee is in a good mood, as Balaam desired to dye the death of the Righteous: so hee, after a Sermon, &c.
3 The desires of an Unbelieving man are faint, not strong and earnest desires: They are but slight and superficial desires, such as are put off with every thing. They are not vehement and strong desires, such as will not be put off with any thing, but with the thing desired; like the desires of David after the Wells of Bethlehem. — Oh! That some? would give me to drink of the Waters of Bethlehem, &c. Like the desires of Christ, Luk. 22.15. — With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. That is — with strong desires: not a single, but a double Desire: a desiring Desire.
3 The desires of an Unbeleeving man are faint, not strong and earnest desires: They are but slight and superficial desires, such as are put off with every thing. They are not vehement and strong desires, such as will not bee put off with any thing, but with the thing desired; like the desires of David after the Wells of Bethlehem. — Oh! That some? would give mee to drink of the Waters of Bethlehem, &c. Like the desires of Christ,