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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.
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.
Thus strong Faith will trust without means. God is not trusted at all, if not trusted alone. If we take in any thing with God, in our trust, we trust not God at all, as we ought.
Thus strong Faith will trust without means. God is not trusted at all, if not trusted alone. If wee take in any thing with God, in our trust, wee trust not God at all, as wee ought.
When men are brought to the lowest strait, they are nearest to the highest God. And then will Faith work best, when it works alone; and then is God nearest to help, when mans strength is small. Mans extremity is Gods opportunity.
When men are brought to the lowest strait, they are nearest to the highest God. And then will Faith work best, when it works alone; and then is God nearest to help, when mans strength is small. Mans extreamity is Gods opportunity.