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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 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.
A man may desire this evil to bee taken away; this cross, this affliction to bee removed; this temptation, this corruption to bee taken away. God denies it, seeing it best for a man to bee exercised with them. And Faith will submit.
Again, a man desires this outward mercy; it may be Riches, may be Honours, the great things of the World: And thinks (it may be) if God did raise him, he would raise God: if God would make him great, he would make God great.
Again, a man desires this outward mercy; it may bee Riches, may bee Honours, the great things of the World: And thinks (it may bee) if God did raise him, hee would raise God: if God would make him great, hee would make God great.
But now God denies this. God sees it is better that thou want them, than enjoy them. And Faith submits to Gods Wisdom,1 and to Gods Will in it. Gods Will is his will: and saith, Not my will, but thy will be done. Gods will is the best, and being best, wills what is the Best both for his own glory, and our good.
But now God denies this. God sees it is better that thou want them, than injoy them. And Faith submits to Gods Wisdome,1 and to Gods Will in it. Gods Will is his will: and saith, Not my will, but thy will bee done. Gods will is the best, and being best, wills what is the Best both for his own glory, and our good.