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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.
It is not so much the Sorrow, as the Ground and Spring of the Sorrow. The object of it is to be taken notice of. Sorrow was naught i• Judas, good in Peter; it was naught in Saul, good in David. In the one, it was a Sorrow to death; in the other, a Sorrow to cure the wound of Death. In the one, worldly; in the other, ••dly—Worldly sorrow causeth death. And such is all sorrow, th• hath not sin for the ground, grace for the principle, God ••t the end.
Where ••n is apprehended the Greatest evil, it will have the Greatest sorrow: Sorrow to exceed all other sorrows.
1. Though not ever in quantity and bulk, yet in quality and worth: A little Gold is worth a great deal of Earth and Rubbish.
2. Though not in strength, yet in length and continuance: Other sorrows are but like a Land-flood, for a time, occasioned by a Story, which, when that is over, the flood is down. This Godly sorrow doth arise from a spring, and having a fountain to continue it, it is Permanent, when the other is gone. This is the difference between the Godly, and the other.