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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 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.
We may ask some things too earnestly, which are more profitably denied, then granted. As Solomon said of Adonijahs request, so I may say of many of ours: We ask our lives, we desire our Bane, such things as would hurt us, and undo us. And are not those things mercifully denied, which without hurt cannot be granted? This is to cross us with a Mercy. A child desires a knife of the Father, The Child sees no hurt in it: but the Father doth. And shall we not then submit to the Wisdom of our Father?
Wee may ask some things too earnestly, which are more profitably denyed, then granted. As Solomon said of Adonijahs request, so I may say of many of ours: Wee ask our lives, wee desire our Bane, such things as would hurt us, and undo us. And are not those things mercifully denyed, which without hurt cannot bee granted? This is to cross us with a Mercy. A child desires a knife of the Father, The Child sees no hurt in it: but the Father doth. And shall wee not then submit to the Wisdome of our Father?
A man may desire this evil to be taken away; this cross, this affliction to be removed; this temptation, this corruption to be taken away. God denies it, seeing it best for a man to be exercised with them. And Faith will submit.