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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.
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.
So if our condition be troublesome and afflicted, we had need of Faith to see all is for the best, and need we had of Faith, to make the best use of it, to humble us, wean us, win us, &c. Faith can see good in all; making all good to him, though in themselves never so evil.
So if our condition bee troublesome and afflicted, wee had need of Faith to see all is for the best, and need wee had of Faith, to make the best use of it, to humble us, wean us, winne us, &c. Faith can see good in all; making all good to him, though in themselves never so evil.
3. There are Motives drawn from the excellency of Faith. I shall say no more of it, but what I have already said, and you may read in these several Royalties of Faith already laid down.