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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.
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?
1. Consider the greatness of this sin of Unbelief. 2. The Necessity of Faith. 3. The Excellency of it.
1. Consider the greatness of the sin of Unbelief. It is such a sin as offers injury and wrong to All-God. It wrongs all the attributes of God. As Faith doth honour all Gods attributes: It is said of Abraham, that — He gave glory to God by believing, Rom. 4.20. He honoured his Mercy, his Wisdom, his Power, &c. So on the contrary, unbelief is such a sin, as wrongs all: The Wisdom, Power, Mercy, Truth and Justice of God.
1. Consider the greatness of the sin of Unbelief. It is such a sin as offers injury and wrong to All-God. It wrongs all the attributes of God. As Faith doth honour all Gods attributes: It is said of Abraham, that — Hee gave glory to God by beleeving, Rom. 4.20. Hee honoured his Mercy, his Wisdome, his Power, &c. So on the contrary, unbeleif is such a sin, as wrongs all: The Wisdome, Power, Mercy, Truth and Justice of God.