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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 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.
You see the unbelieving Noble Man, when the Prophet Elisha told him in that great famine, that the next day there should be such great plenty. What! saith he, If God could open the windows of Heaven, how could this be? Though there were a famine on earth, he had no reason to think there was a dearth in Heaven: God was able to do it; his hand was not shortened. But here it was. He saw no means whereby this might be effected; and therefore he could not believe it.
You see the unbeleeving Noble Man, when the Prophet Elisha told him in that great famine, that the next day there should bee such great plenty. What! saith hee, If God could open the windows of Heaven, how could this bee? Though there were a famine on earth, hee had no reason to think there was a dearth in Heaven: God was able to do it; his hand was not shortened. But here it was. Hee saw no means whereby this might bee effected; and therefore hee could not beleeve it.