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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.
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.
Sinful evil is properly the object of hatred, because this is properly evil: and being the Greatest of Evils, should therefore have the greatest of our hatred, Psal. 92.10—You that love the Lord, see that you Hate evil. It is not enough for you, to be angry with sin, and displeased with sin; for so a man may be with his Friend, one whom he loves, upon some discourtesy: Nor is it enough that you should strike sin; for so many do to day, and embrace it to morrow: But you must endeavour to kill sin. Hatred labours after the Un-being of that it hates: Nothing but the destruction and blood of it, vvill satisfy the soul that truly hates sin.
Sinful evil is properly the object of hatred, because this is properly evil: and being the Greatest of Evils, should therefore have the greatest of our hatred, Psal. 92.10—You that love the Lord, see that you Hate evil. It is not enough for you, to be angry vvith sin, and displeased vvith sin; for so a man may be vvith his Friend, one vvhom he loves, upon some discourtesie: Nor is it enough that you should strike sin; for so many do to day, and imbrace it to morrovv: But you must endeavor to kill sin. Hatred labors after the Un-being of that it hates: Nothing but the destruction and blood of it, vvill satisfie the soul that truly hates sin.