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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.
9. Strong Faith, and strong Prayers.
1. Strong to wrestle with God. 2. Strong to prevail with God.
1. Such are strong to wrestle with God. Faith doth furnish a man with a deep sense of his wants; with strong affections, with strong Promises to wrestle with God, to have those wants supplied. Jacobs Prayer was called a wrestling with God. It was a wrestling-prayer, such an one as proceeded from a strong Faith; as you may read in the story, Gen. 32.24. to the 30. where he encounters God, with Gods own strength; the strength of his Promise, the strength of his Covenant. — O God of my Fathers, Abraham, Isaac: Thou hast said, thou wilt bless me; thou badst me return into my own Country, and thou wouldest deal well with me. Deliver me now, then I beseech thee, from the hand of my Brother, &c.
1. Such are strong to wrestle with God. Faith doth furnish a man with a deep sense of his wants; with strong affections, with strong Promises to wrestle with God, to have those wants supplied. Jacobs Prayer was called a wrestling with God. It was a wrestling-prayer, such an one as proceeded from a strong Faith; as you may read in the story, Gen. 32.24. to the 30. where hee incounters God, with Gods own strength; the strength of his Promise, the strength of his Covenant. — O God of my Fathers, Abraham, Isaac: Thou hast said, thou wilt bless mee; thou badst mee return into my own Country, and thou wouldest deal well with mee. Deliver mee now, then I beseech thee, from the hand of my Brother, &c.