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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.
The like of Ahaz, Isa. 7.11, 12. God told him that his enemies that were come against him, should not prevail against him: God would fight for him. And that he might be certain of this, he bids him — Ask a sign in Heaven, or in the deep, for the confirmation of his Faith. But saith Ahaz — I will not tempt God. What's ⟨p. 158⟩that? I will provide for my self. I will not trust in the want of means. I should tempt God in so doing.
The like of Ahaz, Isa. 7.11, 12. God told him that his enemies that were come against him, should not prevail against him: God would fight for him. And that hee might bee certain of this, hee bids him — Ask a sign in Heaven, or in the deep, for the confirmation of his Faith. But saith Ahaz — I will not tempt God. What's ⟨p. 158⟩that? I will provide for my self. I will not trust in the want of means. I should tempt God in so doing.
And many such Ahazes we have in the World. They think, to trust in God in the absence of means, is to tempt God. What, say they, doth God work wonders, that he should do this without means? Why God can do wonders, and yet in an ordinary way.
And many such Ahazes wee have in the World. They think, to trust in God in the absence of means, is to tempt God. What, say they, doth God work wonders, that hee should do this without means? Why God can do wonders, and yet in an ordinary way.