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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.
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.
Gods people, their sorrows, which are Spiritual, do arise from a spring; their worldly, from a storm, a tempest. The wicked, their spiritual sorrows arise from a storm, some present wringing of Conscience, fear of wrath; and their worldly sorrows arise from a spring.
Gods people, their sorrows, which are Spiritual, do arise from a spring; their worldly, from a storm, a tempest. The wicked, their spiritual sorrows arise from a storm, some present vvringing of Conscience, fear of vvrath; and their vvorldly sorrovvs arise from a spring.