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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.
1. Much Afflictions from God cannot quench our Affections to God. As all our dealings to God doth not alter Gods affections to us: so all Gods dealings to us, will not alter our affections to God — Si diligis, Domine, fac quicquid vis, was the speech of Calvin: Lord, if thou love me, do what thou wilt. And Jobs — Though thou kill me; yet I will still trust in thee. And the Church professeth the like, Psal. 44.17, 18, 19.— All this is come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, nor have we dealt falsely in thy Covenant. Our heart is not turned back; nor have our steps gone out of thy paths: Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of Dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death, &c.
1. Much Afflictions from God cannot quench our Affections to God. As all our dealings to God doth not alter Gods affections to us: so all Gods dealings to us, will not alter our affections to God — Si diligis, Domine, fac quicquid vis, was the speech of Calvin: Lord, if thou love mee, do what thou wilt. And Jobs — Though thou kill mee; yet I will still trust in thee. And the Church professeth the like, Psal. 44.17, 18, 19.— All this is come upon us, yet do wee not forget thee, nor have wee dealt falsely in thy Covenant. Our heart is not turned back; nor have our steps gone out of thy paths: Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of Dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death, &c.
2. Much afflictions for God shall not cool our affections to God. We shall be ready to go through a Sea, through a Wilderness, through the sharpest encounters for Christ. Nothing shall pose a strong Believer.
2. Much afflictions for God shall not cool our affections to God. Wee shall bee ready to go through a Sea, through a Wildernesse, through the sharpest incounters for Christ. Nothing shall pose a strong Beleever.