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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.
Strong Faith overcomes the allurements and threats of the World: it overcomes all. This is our victory, whereby we overcome the World, even our Faith.
Strong Faith overcomes the allurements and threats of the World: it overcomes all. This is our victory, whereby wee overcome the World, even our Faith.
8. Strong Faith overcomes strong doubts; answers strong Objections in the soul. Such doubts and objections move not them, that are ready to overwhelm a weak Faith. It will fly away with such twigs as will hinder the flight of weaker Christians.
8. Strong Faith overcomes strong doubts; answers strong Objections in the soul. Such doubts and objections move not them, that are ready to overwhelm a weak Faith. It will flye away with such twigs as will hinder the flight of weaker Christians.
There are doubts in the best Believers. So long as there is flesh,1 so long there will be doubts: but strong Believers are not overcome with doubts; but will overcome doubts. Though Faith doth not expel, yet it conquers doubts, Rom. 4.20. — Abraham staggered not through unbelief; but being strong in Faith, gave Glory to God. That is, though there might be some doubts, yet they prevailed not to the staggering of his Faith. His Faith overcame his doubtings. A weaker Faith is full of doubts, making the soul like a pare of Balances, the scales whereof are wavering sometimes this way, sometimes that. The mind hath now its assenting, and by and by its dissenting: Now it saith, God is my God. Christ is my Christ; and anon it fears, Christ is not his. God is not his. Now it hopes its sins are pardoned, anon it fears; its sins are not pardoned.