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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.
Ans. You may say, you do so. But there's no such matter. If Christ were precious in thy eyes, then
1. Thou wouldst not care what pains thou tookest for the compassing of Christ. You see a worldly man, to whom the World is precious, what pains he takes for the attaining of the things of the World, Eccles. 4.8. the like and greater pains wouldest thou take for the things of Christ, if he were to thee alike precious.
1. Thou wouldst not care what pains thou tookest for the compassing of Christ. You see a worldly man, to whom the World is precious, what pains hee takes for the attaining of the things of the World, Eccles. 4.8. the like and greater pains wouldest thou take for the things of Christ, if hee were to thee alike precious.
2. Thou wouldest not care what thou partest withal for the compassing of Christ. Thou wouldest count Christ thy greatest gain, and all loss in comparison of him, Phil. 3.7, 8. He is not valued at all, it he be not valued above all.
2. Thou wouldest not care what thou partest withall for the compassing of Christ. Thou wouldest count Christ thy greatest gain, and all loss in comparison of him, Phil. 3.7, 8. Hee is not valued at all, it hee bee not valued above all.