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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. A strong Faith is strong to bear losses for Christ. As they, Heb. 10.34. Who took joyfully the spoiling of their goods: as if the enemy had done them a great courtesy.
2. A strong Faith is strong to bear losses for Christ. As they, Heb. 10.34. Who took joyfully the spoiling of their goods: as if the enemy had done them a great courtesie.
A strong Faith is strong to bear Persecutions, Scourges, Death it self for Christ. You see what the Apostles endured, what Stephen endured. Why, saith the Text — He was a man full of Faith, Act. 5.8. Strong Faith did enable them to suffer, and bear, and to go through difficulties, prisons, persecutions, scourgings, &c. for Christ.
A strong Faith is strong to bear Persecutions, Scourges, Death it self for Christ. You see what the Apostles indured, what Stephen indured. Why, saith the Text — Hee was a man full of Faith, Act. 5.8. Strong Faith did inable them to suffer, and bear, and to go through difficulties, prisons, persecutions, scourgings, &c. for Christ.
A strong Believer doth rejoice if he can hold up God (as it were) though himself be down: if he can raise up Gods Glory, though it be by the ruin of himself: save his honour, by loss of himself.