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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.
3. The more Faith, the more spiritual Comfort; the more Peace, Joy and consolation. These are the fruits of Faith.
4. The more Faith, the more strength to prevail with God in Prayer.
And therefore let this put you on to labour for the increase of Faith. Grow from Faith to Faith.
In Temporals we are ready to look above us, who is higher, richer, not below us, who is poorer. But in spirituals we look below us, not above us; behind us, not before us; how many come short of our measure: not how many do out-strip us. And therefore we content our selves with that we have. But let us labour to forget all behind, and to press forward to the mark of the Rich calling of God in Christ Jesus, as the Apostle did. If thy Faith be true, it is of a growing Nature.
In Temporals wee are ready to look above us, who is higher, richer, not below us, who is poorer. But in spirituals wee look below us, not above us; behind us, not before us; how many come short of our measure: not how many do out-strip us. And therefore wee content our selves with that wee have. But let us labour to forget all behind, and to presse forward to the mark of the Rich calling of God in Christ Jesus, as the Apostle did. If thy Faith bee true, it is of a growing Nature.