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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.
Faith is the salt, which seasons and sweetens every duty. It is ⟨p. 168⟩the life, and soul of every performance; without which all are but dead, and stinking works; and cannot please God. Faith is to duty, as the Soul is to the Body.
When you go to Prayer, you had need of Faith, whereby you may — Cry Abba, Father; without which Prayer is but the complaint of Nature; or the cry of a hopeless and desperate heart.
When you go to hear, you had need of Faith, to incorporate it self with the word heard; without which the word will not profit us: nor the word Promising, nor the word threatening, the one to humble us, the other to raise us, and comfort us.
When you go to hear, you had need of Faith, to incorporate it self with the word heard; without which the word will not profit us: nor the word Promising, nor the word threatning, the one to humble us, the other to raise us, and comfort us.