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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.
Thus doth a strong Faith hold up the conclusion of Faith against all the Reasonings of Satan against it. Let him produce never so many Evidences to the contrary, yet will he not be born down in it. It's a maxim of Faith; he will hold to against all opposition whatsoever.
Thus doth a strong Faith hold up the conclusion of Faith against all the Reasonings of Satan against it. Let him produce never so many Evidences to the contrary, yet will hee not bee born down in it. It's a maxime of Faith; hee will hold to against all opposition whatsoever.
You see it was thus in Job. — When God had taken away his goods; when his hand was upon his body, and upon his spirit too, not only withdrawing himself from him; but positively inflicting of his displeasure upon his soul: yet all that Satan could do by himself, all that he could do by his friends, who joined with Satan in the battle, could not make him unsay, what his heart and the Spirit of God had so often said; nothing shall make him to eat his own words. Nothing shall cause him to deny his integrity. The root of the matter was still in him: and he will live and dye with this in his heart; with this in his mouth; that notwithstanding all this; God is his God, God is his Father: his heart hath been sincere before him. And this was a strong Faith that would be thus resolute in believing, when he had so much reason on the other side to bear him down.
You see it was thus in Job. — When God had taken away his goods; when his hand was upon his body, and upon his spirit too, not only withdrawing himself from him; but positively inflicting of his displeasure upon his soul: yet all that Satan could do by himself, all that hee could do by his friends, who joyned with Satan in the battel, could not make him unsay, what his heart and the Spirit of God had so often said; nothing shall make him to eat his own words. Nothing shall cause him to deny his integrity. The root of the matter was still in him: and hee will live and dye with this in his heart; with this in his mouth; that notwithstanding all this; God is his God, God is his Father: his heart hath been sincere before him. And this was a strong Faith that would bee thus resolute in beleeving, when hee had so much reason on the other side to bear him down.