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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.
It is necessary to every Ordinance, necessary to your Callings; necessary to every condition. We had need of Faith to go ⟨p. 169⟩through all the conditions of this life: Through Prosperity, Adversity, Sickness, Health: Losses and Enjoyments. As the Apostle said of Patience, the Daughter, so I say of Faith the Mother. — You have need of Faith, that after ye have suffered the Will of God, ye might inherit the Promise, Heb. 10.36.
It is necessary to every Ordinance, necessary to your Callings; necessary to every condition. Wee had need of Faith to go ⟨p. 169⟩through all the conditions of this life: Through Prosperity, Adversity, Sickness, Health: Losses and Injoyments. As the Apostle said of Patience, the Daughter, so I say of Faith the Mother. — You have need of Faith, that after yee have suffered the Will of God, yee might inherit the Promise, Heb. 10.36.
If our condition be prosperous, we had need of Faith, to see all is for good, and need of Faith, to enable us to make a good use of it.
If our condition bee prosperous, wee had need of Faith, to see all is for good, and need of Faith, to inable us to make a good use of it.
1. You had need of Faith, to see the Tenor of your enjoyments; That you enjoy them, not only out of leave, but out of Love: not only from a general Providence; but from a particular Promise.