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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.
Say, Satan takes up arguments from Gods, 1. Inward, Or 2. Outward dealings with us.
1. From his Inward dealings. May be, a man is in some present Desertion, and wants the clear Evidences, which formerly he had; and Satan from thence doth argue, That God is not our God; he is not our Father: yet will not a strong Faith be reasoned out of his Faith.
1. From his Inward dealings. May bee, a man is in some present Desertion, and wants the clear Evidences, which formerly hee had; and Satan from thence doth argue, That God is not our God; hee is not our Father: yet will not a strong Faith bee reasoned out of his Faith.
The soul will yet conclude it, though it cannot clear it, and believe it, when it cannot see it. The strong Christian lives by Faith, not by feeling; and knows God may be His God, though by sense it be not discerned, but that God is not his God. You see this, in Psal. 22.1. — My God! My God! There's Faith. Why hast thou forsaken me! There's sense. Faith held the conclusion against sense. That God was his God: though sense could not apprehend, but that he was forsaken of God.
The soul will yet conclude it, though it cannot clear it, and beleeve it, when it cannot see it. The strong Christian lives by Faith, not by feeling; and knows God may bee His God, though by sense it bee not discerned, but that God is not his God. You see this, in Psal. 22.1. — My God! My God! There's Faith. Why hast thou forsaken mee! There's sense. Faith held the conclusion against sense. That God was his God: though sense could not apprehend, but that hee was forsaken of God.