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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.
As the merit of sin is infinite, so the sorrow for it must be an infinite sorrow. Infinite, I say, Non Actu, sed Affectu, not in the act and expression, but in the Desire and Affection of the soul.
As the merit of sin is infinite, so the sorrovv for it must be an infinite sorrovv. Infinite, I say, Non Actu, sed Affectu, not in the act and expression, but in the Desire and Affection of the soul.
He, whose Heart and Eyes dry up together, whose Expression in Tears, and Affection of Sorrow, do end together; though he had wept a sea of Tears, he had not yet truly wept for sin.
He, vvhose Heart and Eyes dry up together, vvhose Expression in Tears, and Affection of Sorrow, do end together; though he had wept a sea of Tears, he had not yet truly wept for sin.
Where sorrow is Godly, it hath Affections of mourning, when the expression of mourning ceaseth; because every drop of tears doth arise from a spring of tears within.
Where sorrovv is Godly, it hath Affections of mourning, vvhen the expression of mourning ceaseth; because every drop of tears doth arise from a spring of tears vvithin.