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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. With small means. Strong Believers know full well, be the means never so small; if God bid them to be effectual, they shall do the work. As Jeremiah was drawn out of the Dungeon with old rotten Rags: so God can make use of weak and contemptible means, to effect his own purposes, to draw thee out of the Dungeon of affliction.
1. With small means. Strong Beleevers know full well, bee the means never so small; if God bid them to bee effectual, they shall do the work. As Jeremy was drawn out of the Dungeon with old rotten Raggs: so God can make use of weak and contemptible means, to effect his own purposes, to draw thee out of the Dungeon of affliction.
Faith knows God can help with few, as well as with many; with a small hand, as well as with a great; all is one to him. It was that that Asa said to God, when Zera the Ethiopian came against him, with such a great host, that he seemed to be but a Sentry in the midst of a large circumference, 2 Chron. 14.11. — Lord, it is nothing with thee to help with many, or with few. Help us, Lord; ⟨p. 157⟩for we trust upon thee; and in thy name we go out against this great multitude, And the day was theirs. But in another he was overthrown, when the difficulty was less; because he trusted not on the Lord. The like we read of Jehoshaphat, 2 Chron. 20.1, 2, 3, 4. and many others.
Faith knows God can help with few, as well as with many; with a small hand, as well as with a great; all is one to him. It was that that Asa said to God, when Zera the Ethyopian came against him, with such a great hoast, that hee seemed to bee but a Centry in the midst of a large circumference, 2 Chron. 14.11