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Name: The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657

[34], 420 [i.e. 455], [2] p. : port. · 221k words · Wing B3518 · ESTC R7007

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A TREATISE OF THE NATURE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 18 › Use of Examination.A TREATISE OF THE NATƲRE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 18 › Use of Examination.

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There's safety in the Tower, when all other sorts and Bulwarks are gone; when Out-works are taken, and Walls are scaled, there is yet safety in the Tower.

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So here: when all Out-works are gone, when all our Evidences seem to be gone, when nothing appears to comfort us; yet the Name of the Lord is a strong Tower to fly to, a rock to rest on; whereupon being exalted, we are delivered from danger, and set out of gun-shot. Hence we read the Name of the Lord opposed to all stays and props, which Faith had to rest on, Isa. 50.10. — He that walks in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the Name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

So here: when all Out-works are gone, when all our Evidences seem to bee gone, when nothing appears to comfort us; yet the Name of the Lord is a strong Tower to flye to, a rock to rest on; whereupon being exalted, wee are delivered from danger, and set out of gun-shot. Hence wee read the Name of the Lord opposed to all staies and props, which Faith had to rest on, Isa. 50.10. — Hee that walks in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the Name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

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Here is such a bottom for Faith to rest upon, that if Faith should fail, All God would fail with it: His Mercy, His Truth, His Wisdom, His Power, &c.

Here is such a bottom for Faith to rest upon, that if Faith should fail, All God would fail with it: His Mercy, His Truth, His Wisdome, His Power, &c.

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