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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.
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.
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 wee beleeve not,1 wee make him untrue in his Promise, his Oath, his Covenant, &c.
- 1Uae nobis, si nec juranti Deo credimus.
2. Unbelief is a Mother-sin; it is a Root-sin; the summum genus of sin; such a sin as hath all sins folded up in the bowels of it; a catholic sin. And therefore the Apostle expresseth sinners of all sorts under this general (Children of Unbelief) which is as much as Children of all ungodliness, such as had all sin in them.
2. Unbelief is a Mother-sin; it is a Root-sin; the summum genus of sin; such a sin as hath all sins folded up in the bowels of it; a catholick sin. And therefore the Apostle expresseth sinners of all sorts under this general (Children of Unbelief) which is as much as Children of all ungodliness, such as had all sin in them.