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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.
Dwell upon such considerations as these are, being means to beget Faith. When men are once convinced of the fullness of God, they will come over to him, if withal they be fully convinced of their own need.
Dwell upon such considerations as these are, being means to beget Faith. When men are once convinced of the fulness of God, they will come over to him, if withall they bee fully convinced of their own need.
It is possible for a man to believe this fullness in Christ, and yet ⟨p. 177⟩not be able to clear his acceptance. We read of the Lepers, who seeing nothing but death in their condition, 2 King. 7.3, 4, resolved not to stay there, but to go over to the Camp of the Assyrians. — If they save us alive (say they) we shall live: and if they kill us, we can but dye. And there were many reasons, which might cause them to expect no better, but death from them.
It is possible for a man to beleeve this fulness in Christ, and yet ⟨p. 177⟩not bee able to clear his acceptance. Wee read of the Lepers, who seeing nothing but death in their condition, 2 King. 7.3, 4, resolved not to stay there, but to go over to the Camp of the Assyrians. — If they save us alive (say they) wee shall live: and if they kill us, wee can but dye. And there were many reasons, which might cause them to expect no better, but death from them.