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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.
2. Strong Faith cannot only take long delays; But denials ⟨p. 162⟩well. It can submit to denials, as well as to grants. You see it in David. He had strong desires for the continuance of the life of his Child. God denied it. See how calm, how submissive he was, in the denial; insomuch that he was a wonder to all his servants.
2. Strong Faith cannot only take long delaies; But denyals ⟨p. 162⟩well. It can submit to denials, as well as to grants. You see it in David. Hee had strong desires for the continuance of the life of his Child. God denyed it. See how calm, how submissive hee was, in the denyal; insomuch that hee was a wonder to all his servants.
A weak Faith doth faint and is discouraged at the denials of requests. It cannot tell how to take a denial of God: but a strong Faith can take denials as well as grants.
A weak Faith doth faint and is discouraged at the denyals of requests. It cannot tell how to take a denyal of God: but a strong Faith can take denyals as well as grants.
A strong Faith is clear in this, that God is a Father, and therefore his denials are in mercy: all is for good: he knows, if God hear him not according to his will,1 yet according to his good.
A strong Faith is clear in this, that God is a Father, and therefore his denyals are in mercy: all is for good: hee knows, if God hear him not according to his will,