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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.
There are two things when men are humbled, which keep them off from believing, either, 1. A doubt of Gods Power — Lord if thou canst. 2. A doubt of his Will.— Lord, if thou wilt.
There are two things when men are humbled, which keep them off from beleeving, either, 1. A doubt of Gods Power — Lord if thou canst. 2. A doubt of his Will.— Lord, if thou wilt.
1. Some doubt of his Power. Oh! Is God able to pardon such a sinner as I have been? Can he pardon so great, so bloody, so crimson sins? If they were but such, or such, I should not doubt▪ But being so great: how can God pardon!
1. Some doubt of his Power. Oh! Is God able to pardon such a sinner as I have been? Can hee pardon so great, so bloudy, so crimson sins? If they were but such, or such, I should not doubt▪ But being so great: how can God pardon!
2. Others doubt of his Will. They will be ready to say. They know there is a fullness of Power in God: he is able to forgive my sins; let them be what they will be: he hath a Sea of Mercy, able to drown Mountains as well as Mole-hills. But alas! I doubt of his Will: whether he will show mercy to such a sinner.
2. Others doubt of his Will. They will bee ready to say. They know there is a fulness of Power in God: hee is able to forgive my sins; let them bee what they will bee: hee hath a Sea of Mercy, able to drown Mountains as well as Mole-hills. But alas! I doubt of his Will: whether hee will shew mercy to such a sinner.