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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.
Unbelief is both the Entertainer, and Maintainer of sin. It is not only the Mother, but the Nurse of sin. Every sin doth suck the dug of Unbelief. It is a sin-succouring, a sin-nourishing sin. Not only the Breeder, but the Feeder of sin. Not only the Begetter, but the Nourisher of sin. It is such a Root as doth nourish and succour all the branches of sin.
There is nothing holds up the Kingdom of sin, but Unbelief. If men would believe, the Kingdom of sin would totter and come down. But whiles men believe not, the hands of sin are strengthened, the kingdom of sin is held up in us.
There is nothing holds up the Kingdome of sin, but Unbelief. If men would beleeve, the Kingdome of sin would totter and come down. But whiles men beleeve not, the hands of sin are strengthened, the kingdome of sin is held up in us.
Sin goes to Unbelief for protection, and there it hath it. Unbelief will be a shield to keep off any blow that is given to sin.
Sin goes to Unbelief for protection, and there it hath it. Unbelief will bee a shield to keep off any blow that is given to sin.