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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.
And hence the Angels sung at his Incarnation—Good will to Men. It was nothing but mere Good will.
And hence the Angels sung at his Incarnation—Good will to Men. It was nothing but meer Good will.
And, when he was in the world, he carried on the work with as much Good will. He tells us—For this end was I born, and for this end came I •nto the world—Nay, and he saith—He was in pain till the hour came; viz. in pain of love, till the hour came,
And, when he was in the world, he carryed on the work with as much Good will. He tells us—For this end was I born, and for this end came I •nto the world—Nay, and he saith—He was in pain till the hour came; viz. in pain of love, till the hour came,
And, when the hour came, though it was a Black and Dismal-hour, called, The hour of Darkness; yet he would not desert us, he would not leave us. If he had, He had left us in Hell, without all recovery. But he would go through with it, though it made him (so far as he was man) to strange at the work of his own mercy. Nay, He would bear sin, and bear wrath, and would lay down the utmost drop of blood in his body.