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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.
1. Let me exhort you to labour to get Faith. Let the chief of your pains, and choice of your endeavours be for the getting of Faith. It is a thing to be lamented, how men do labour and toil for earthly things, and how they neglect Heavenly. Oh! That men should rise up early, and go to bed late; and eat the bread of carefulness, for the compassing of earthly things! But in the mean time, the things of Heaven are neglected! no man labours for them. Faith and Grace are the great drugs of the World; they lye upon our hands, they will not off; no man bids money for them, no man endeavours the compassing of them.
1. Let mee exhort you to labour to get Faith. Let the chief of your pains, and choice of your indeavours bee for the getting of Faith. It is a thing to bee lamented, how men do labour and toil for earthly things, and how they neglect Heavenly. Oh! That men should rise up early, and go to bed late; and eat the bread of carefulness, for the compassing of earthly things! But in the mean time, the things of Heaven are neglected! no man labours for them. Faith and Grace are the great druggs of the World; they lye upon our hands, they will not off; no man bids mony for them, no man indeavours the compassing of them.
Oh! that men should care for the Body, and neglect the Soul! feed the Body, and starve the Soul! clothe the Body, and the Soul go naked! That men should labour after other things, and never set themselves to the endeavour and compassing of this one thing necessary! Shall I urge some motives?
Oh! that men should care for the Body, and neglect the Soul! feed the Body, and starve the Soul! cloathe the Body, and the Soul go naked! That men should labour after other things, and never set themselves to the indeavour and compassing of this one thing necessary! Shall I urge some motives?