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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 every Act of Faith doth arise from a believing disposition, an habit of faith within; every act of Love, from a Principle of love within: So every expression of sorrow from an affection of sorrow in the spirit—Hence we read, 1 Sam. 7.6. their sorrow is expressed by this Metaphor—They drew water (as out of a well) and poured it out before the Lord. Their eyes did not empty, so fast as their hearts filled. Their eyes could not pour it forth, so fast as their hearts did yield it up. All their Expressions of Mourning did fall short of those Affections of Sorrow which were in the heart.
As every Act of Faith doth arise from a believing disposition, an habit of faith vvithin; every act of Love, from a Principle of love vvithin: So every expression of sorrow from an affection of sorrovv in the spirit—Hence vve read, 1 Sam. 7.6. their sorrovv is exprest by this Metaphor—They drew water (as out of a vvell) and poured it out before the Lord. Their eyes did not empty, so fast as their hearts filled. Their eyes could not pour it forth, so fast as their hearts did yield it up. All their Expressions of Mourning did fall short of those Affections of Sorrow vvhich vvere in the heart.
This is sorrow for sin: A sorrow proportioned to the measure, to the demerit of sin: A sorrow, that doth exceed al• other sorrows; though not in quantity, yet in quality; th ugh not in strength, yet in length and continuance.
This is sorrow for sin: A sorrow proportioned to the measure, to the demerit of sin: A sorrow, that doth exceed al• other sorrovvs; though not in quantity, yet in quality; th ugh not in strength, yet in length and continuance.