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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.
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.
A strong Beleever doth rejoyce if hee can hold up God (as it were) though himself bee down: if hee can raise up Gods Glory, though it bee by the ruine of himself: save his honour, by losse of himself.
What Epaminondas said: (who having resolved concerning his Buckler, either to defend it, or to dye for it; being wounded to death, brake forth into these words — Num salvus est Clypeus meus? Is my Buckler safe? If that be safe, I am well.) So the Believer, in the midst of all his sufferings; if he can keep his Buckler safe, hold up God, and his Glory: All is well.
What Epaminondas said: (who having resolved concerning his Buckler, either to defend it, or to dye for it; being wounded to death, brake forth into these words — Num salvus est Clypeus meus? Is my Buckler safe? If that bee safe, I am well.) So the Beleever, in the midst of all his sufferings; if hee can keep his Buckler safe, hold up God, and his Glory: All is well.