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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.
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,1 yet according to his good.
- 1Etsi non ad voluntatem, tamen ad sanitatem.
A strong Faith submits to Gods wisdom, and Gods will, who is the only Wise. We may desire a thing at Gods hand, and in our wisdom may judge it to be good: But God in his Wisdom, who knows the issue of things, sees it will be for our hurt; and therefore denies it. And Faith submits to his wisdom, and follows him; as a blind man his guide.
A strong Faith submits to Gods wisdome, and Gods will, who is the only VVise. Wee may desire a thing at Gods hand, and in our wisdome may judge it to bee good: But God in his Wisdome, who knows the issue of things, sees it will bee for our hurt; and therefore denies it. And Faith submits to his wisdome, and follows him; as a blinde man his guide.