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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.
2. You had need of Faith, to see further than your present Estates: to look upon these pence, and farthings as earnests of better things: as something in hand for those things in hope.
3. You had need of Faith, to see the heart of the giver in the gifts; his Affection, in the expression; the God of Mercy, in the enjoyment of Mercy; to taste the fountain in the stream.
3. You had need of Faith, to see the heart of the giver in the gifts; his Affection, in the expression; the God of Mercy, in the injoyment of Mercy; to taste the fountain in the stream.
An unbelieving man he is not able to clear this; He may have prosperity in Judgement, and heap up Riches to his own destruction; All his Wealth may be but fuel to that fire, to make Hell hotter; as Oil to kindle the flame of lust, so fuel to increase the fire of torment hereafter.
An unbeleeving man hee is not able to clear this; Hee may have prosperity in Judgement, and heap up Riches to his own destruction; All his Wealth may bee but fuel to that fire, to make Hell hotter; as Oile to kindle the flame of lust, so fuel to increase the fire of torment hereafter.