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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.
4. You wrong his Truth. As— He that believes hath put to his seal, that God is true; that his Word is true, his Promise true; he will save sinners: so on the contrary, He that believes not, makes God a Liar, 1 Joh. 5.10. Indeed God is true; and whether we believe, or believe not, God is faithful, as the Apostle hath it, 2 Tim. 2.13.
4. You wrong his Truth. As— Hee that beleeves hath put to his seal, that God is true; that his Word is true, his Promise true; hee will save sinners: so on the contrary, Hee that beleeves not, makes God a Lyar, 1 Joh. 5.10. Indeed God is true; and whether wee beleeve, or beleeve not, God is faithful, as the Apostle hath it, 2 Tim. 2.13.
But inasmuch as in us lies, we make God untrue, make him a Liar. Our unbelief doth give God the real lye in all.
But inasmuch as in us lies, wee make God untrue, make him a Lyar. Our unbelief doth give God the real lye in all.
And of what a fearful nature then is Unbelief! God hath promised the pardon of sin, and hath annexed his Oath to his Promise, and his Seal to his Oath: and if we believe not,1 we make him untrue in his Promise, his Oath, his Covenant, &c.