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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.
And without question, Gods people have seen so much Beauty in the Laws, Government and Holiness of Christ, that they have lost all, rather than they would lose their Obedience. And it was said of Christ. Vitam perdidit, ne Obedientiam perderet: He lost his Life, rather than he would lose his Obedience: so may it be said of them, They have taken up naked Obedience with the loss of all. They have seen so much beauty in a Truth, that they have hazarded and lost all, rather than they would lose a Truth. They have made this brave adventure, to lose themselves, to save a Truth; as you see in Queen Mary's days, in point of Transubstantiation.
And without question, Gods people have seen so much Beauty in the Laws, Government and Holiness of Christ, that they have lost all, rather than they would lose their Obedience. And it was said of Christ. Vitam perdidit, ne Obedientiam perderet: Hee lost his Life, rather than hee would lose his Obedience: so may it bee said of them, They have taken up naked Obedience with the losse of all. They have seen so much beauty in a Truth, that they have hazarded and lost all, rather than they would lose a Truth. They have made this brave adventure, to lose themselves, to save a Truth; as you see in Queen Maries dayes, in point of Transubstantiation.
In these particulars a weak Faith shareth stakes with a strong: But for what is more peculiar to a strong Faith.
1. Strong in Faith, and strong in Grace. According to the proportion of Faith, such is the measure of all Gods Graces in us. As weak in Faith, weak in Grace. So strong in Faith, strong in Grace. So much Faith, so much Love, so much Hope, so much Patience; so much Humility. We will single out some.
1. Strong in Faith, and strong in Grace. According to the proportion of Faith, such is the measure of all Gods Graces in us. As weak in Faith, weak in Grace. So strong in Faith, strong in Grace. So much Faith, so much Love, so much Hope, so much Patience; so much Humility. Wee will single out some.