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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.
Zeph. 3.12. — I will leave in the midst of thee, an afflicted and poor people (a people stripped of all means) and they shall trust in the name of the Lord. So 2 Cor. 1.10, 11.— We had the sentence of death in our selves: we saw no help, no means, and all this was— That we should not trust in our selves, but in God, which raiseth the dead, 1 Tim. 5.5.— She that is a Widow in deed, and desolate, Trusts in God, &c.
Zeph. 3.12. — I will leave in the midst of thee, an afflicted and poor people (a people stripped of all means) and they shall trust in the name of the Lord. So 2 Cor. 1.10, 11.— Wee had the sentence of death in our selves: wee saw no help, no means, and all this was— That wee should not trust in our selves, but in God, which raiseth the dead, 1 Tim. 5.5.— Shee that is a Widdow in deed, and desolate, Trusts in God, &c.
Thus you see strong Faith will trust in God, in the absence of means, when all means are wanting. It knows, God is able to do his purpose without, as well as with means. A strong Faith makes God all its confidence. And therefore when all means fail, when all props are taken away: yet confidence is not.
Unbelief will trust God no further than it sees means to bring about the thing it desires.