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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 makes every Ordinance of God unprofitable to us. What is the reason that men hear the Word, and get no more benefit; but because they believe not? Heb. 4.2. The Word preached did not profit them, because it was not mingled with Faith in them that heard it.
Unbelief makes every Ordinance of God unprofitable to us. What is the reason that men hear the Word, and get no more benefit; but because they beleeve not? Heb. 4.2. The Word preached did not profit them, because it was not mingled with Faith in them that heard it.
Do you think the word of Threatening could be heard, and you not be humbled, if you did believe the Truth of all? who were able to lift up his head, nay to stand under the threats of the great God of Heaven and Earth, if he did believe? It is said — The Devils believe and tremble, Jam. 2. And had you but as much Faith as they to believe the truth of what God threatens against sin, it would make the stoutest sinner of you all to tremble.
Do you think the word of Threatning could bee heard, and you not bee humbled, if you did beleeve the Truth of all? who were able to lift up his head, nay to stand under the threats of the great God of Heaven and Earth, if hee did beleeve? It is said — The Devils beleeve and tremble, Jam. 2. And had you but as much Faith as they to beleeve the truth of what God threatens against sin, it would make the stoutest sinner of you all to tremble.