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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.
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.
2. Is sin the Greatest Evil, 1Then it calls out for the Greatest Hatred. Nothing is properly the Object of Hatred, but Evil: And that not All kind of Evil: but sinful Evil—Penal Evils are rather the Objects of Fear, than of Hatred, because these are Improperly Evil.
- 12. Sin calls for the greatest Hatred.
Nothing indeed is evil? but what makes us evil: an• these may be a means to make us good; and therefore are not properly evil, and so an Object of hatred.
Nothing indeed is evil? but vvhat makes us evil: an• these may be a means to make us good; and therefore are not properly evil, and so an Object of hatred.