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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. Though it be weak: yet it is a growing Faith. As all the works: so all the Graces of God begin in weakness. The tallest Cedar was at first but a sprig. The strongest Oak at first was an Acorn. The greatest fire at first was a spark: so the greatest measure of Faith at the first was but as a little seed. It had a beginning.
2. Though it bee weak: yet it is a growing Faith. As all the works: so all the Graces of God begin in weakness. The tallest Cedar was at first but a sprig. The strongest Oak at first was an Acorn. The greatest fire at first was a spark: so the greatest measure of Faith at the first was but as a little seed. It had a beginning.
Those things God intended not for growth, he made perfect at first; as the Sun, the Moon, &c. But those he intended for growth, he at first makes imperfect; as Men, Beasts, Plants, &c.
Those things God intended not for growth, hee made perfect at first; as the Sun, the Moon, &c. But those hee intended for growth, hee at first makes imperfect; as Men, Beasts, Plants, &c.
Christ compares Faith to a grain of Mustard-seed. Not to a stone, but to a seed. Stones are not capable of growth, but seeds are. He compares it to a Mustard-seed: which, though it be the least of seeds, yet grows up highest. And such a seed is thy Faith. Though it be small, though weak; be not discouraged; the Mustard-seed will grow.
Christ compares Faith to a grain of Mustard-seed. Not to a stone, but to a seed. Stones are not capable of growth, but seeds are. Hee compares it to a Mustard-seed: which, though it bee the least of seeds, yet grows up highest. And such a seed is thy Faith. Though it bee small, though weak; bee not discouraged; the Mustard-seed will grow.