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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.
Yet see the strength of her Faith, how it enabled her to out-wrestle these temptations; how it enabled her to follow God.— True Lord; but yet the Dogs may eat the crumbs. Be it, that I am but a Dog; yet thy Dog. And if thou wilt not give me leave to eat of Children's morsels: deny me not Children's crumbs, such as fall from their Table; such as they have no need of.
Yet see the strength of her Faith, how it inabled her to out-wrestle these temptations; how it inabled her to follow God.— True Lord; but yet the Dogs may eat the crumbs. Bee it, that I am but a Dog; yet thy Dog. And if thou wilt not give mee leave to eat of Childrens morsels: deny mee not Childrens crumbs, such as fall from their Table; such as they have no need of.
Thus you see, strong Faith produces strong Prayers; strong to wrestle with God himself.
2. Strong to prevail with God. They are not only wrestling, but prevailing-Prayers.
Jacob wrestled; and Jacob prevailed: Moses wrestled; and Moses prevailed. David wrestled, and he prevailed: The Woman of Canaan wrestled; and she prevailed, vers. 28. — Oh Woman! great is thy Faith: Be it unto thee, even as thou wilt. So the Church for Peter: and they brake open the Prison doors, and set him free.