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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.
Where on the contrary, a vehement intention after Christ, is joined with a vehement intention after the use of means for the getting of Christ. True Desires after Christ, are ever joined with honest endeavours for Christ. He, who desires with an honest heart, will labour with an industrious spirit.
Where on the contrary, a vehement intention after Christ, is joyned with a vehement intention after the use of means for the getting of Christ. True Desires after Christ, are ever joyned with honest indeavours for Christ. Hee, who desires with an honest heart, will labour with an industrious spirit.
2. Weak Faith, though it cannot close with the Promise, yet will it ⟨p. 145⟩close with the Precept. Though not with the Privileges of a Christian, yet with the services of a Christian. Though it cannot share in the Comforts, yet it will side with the Duties of a Christian. Though it cannot clear it, whether God hath given Christ to him; yet it will yield up the soul to him. Though it know not whether he will receive it when it cometh, yet it will come. Though with Mary, it cannot say; — My Saviour, yet, with Thomas, it will say, — My Lord. It wants strength to throw it self into the arms of Christ, to save it. Oh! but yet it will cast it self at the feet of Christ to serve him. Though it want the Light of Comfort and Consolation; yet it will walk in the Light of command and Direction.
2. Weak Faith, though it cannot close with the Promise, yet will it ⟨p. 145⟩close with the Precept. Though not with the Priviledges of a Christian, yet with the services of a Christian. Though it cannot share in the Comforts, yet it will side with the Duties of a Christian. Though it cannot clear it, whether God hath given Christ to him; yet it will yeeld up the soul to him. Though it know not whether hee will receive it when it commeth, yet it will come. Though with Mary, it cannot say; — My Saviour, yet, with Thomas, it will say, — My Lord. It wants strength to throw it self into the arms of Christ, to save it. Oh! but yet it will cast it self at the feet of Christ to serve him. Though it want the Light of Comfort and Consolation; yet it will walk in the Light of command and Direction.