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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.
Again; thou desirest some spiritual mercy from God. Perhaps thou desirest Perfection of Grace in this life: and God sees it is better that corruptions should dwell in thee, as the Lees among the Wine, to keep the Wine sweet, to humble thee; or that they might be as pricks in thy eyes, and goads in thy sides, to make thee more forward and fervent in holy performances.
Again; thou desirest some spiritual mercy from God. Perhaps thou desirest Perfection of Grace in this life: and God sees it is better that corruptions should dwell in thee, as the Lees among the Wine, to keep the Wine sweet, to humble thee; or that they might bee as pricks in thy eyes, and goads in thy sides, to make thee more forward and fervent in holy performances.
Perhaps thou desirest a great deal of Knowledge with Saul, to be higher by the head and shoulders, than thy fellow Christians: ⟨p. 163⟩Or with David, to be wiser than thy Teachers: God denies it; and Faith takes the denial: knowing all is for the best. It may be, it might beget pride; this would puff up; it would be too great a sail for so small a Boat; and rather over-turn thee, than set thee forward.
Perhaps thou desirest a great deal of Knowledge with Saul, to bee higher by the head and shoulders, than thy fellow Christians: ⟨p. 163⟩Or with David, to bee wiser than thy Teachers: God denies it; and Faith takes the denyal: knowing all is for the best. It may bee, it might beget pride; this would puff up; it would bee too great a sail for so smal a Boat; and rather over-turn thee, than set thee forward.