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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.
The least Faith sets as wide a difference between thee and unbelievers, ⟨p. 148⟩as is between Heaven and Hell. And therefore study to be thankful for the least degree of Faith; if it be true Faith. Do not so much look, as to over-look. So look for more, as to over-look what thou hast received. Neglect not that Comfort your present Faith affords, by reaching after more.
The least Faith sets as wide a difference between thee and unbeleevers, ⟨p. 148⟩as is between Heaven and Hell. And therefore study to bee thankful for the least degree of Faith; if it bee true Faith. Do not so much look, as to over-look. So look for more, as to over-look what thou hast received. Neglect not that Comfort your present Faith affords, by reaching after more.
Now having thus laid down the Evidences of a weak Faith, we shall now proceed to lay down the Evidences of a strong Faith. Now where there is a strong Faith, there is
Now having thus laid down the Evidences of a weak Faith, wee shall now proceed to lay down the Evidences of a strong Faith. Now where there is a strong Faith, there is
1. An high prizing of Christ (which yet a weak Faith partakes of,) 1 Pet. 2.7. — Unto you that believe, he is precious. The soul doth rate and value Christ above all the Comforts and contentments, Riches, and Happiness in Heaven, and Earth. Thus you see David,