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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.
1. There was Tentatio Taciturnitatis. There was the trial of silence. She prays, and Christ answers her not a word. Here was a great trial; when God shall hide himself in a Cloud, and not answer her prayers.
1. There was Tentatio Taciturnitatis. There was the tryal of silence. Shee prayes, and Christ answers her not a word. Here was a great tryal; when God shall hide himself in a Cloud, and not answer her prayers.
2. There was Tentatio Particularitatis: first nothing, then worse than nothing, vers. 24. — I am not sent, but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As if he had said, —Thou dost not belong to the election of Grace: thou art not in Covenant: I came only to mine own; not to thee: therefore I will not help thee.
2. There was Tentatio Particularitatis: first nothing, then worse than nothing, vers. 24. — I am not sent, but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As if hee had said, —Thou dost not belong to the election of Grace: thou art not in Covenant: I came only to mine own; not to thee: therefore I will not help thee.
3. There was Tentatio Indignitatis. The trial of Indignity, vers. 26. — It is not meet to take the Children's bread, and cast it unto Dogs.
3. There was Tentatio Indignitatis. The tryal of Indignity, vers. 26. — It is not meet to take the Childrens bread, and cast it unto Dogs.