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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.
1. A man may fall out with a sinner, by whom he hath been drawn into sin, and yet not Hate the sin; execute the Traitor, and yet like the Treason.
1. A man may fall out with a sinner, by whom he hath been drawn into sin, and yet not Hate the sin; execute the Traytor, and yet like the Treason.
2. A man may fall out with himself for sin, and yet not hate sin; When he hath brought some inconvenience to himself by his sin, which otherwise he liketh well enough.
3. A man may fall out with sin, and yet not hate sin: Cast away the coal, when burnt with the fire that is in it, and yet not offended with the blackness of it, or the defilement which he getteth by it.
13. If sin be the Greatest Evil, Then it calls out for the Greatest Care to avoid it. Men are naturally afraid to fall into evil. What study, what care, what endeavours to prevent Evil? Did you apprehend sin to be the Greatest of Evils, there would be no less care to avoid sin. You would endeavour to walk closely and exactly with God; to Beware of all the Occasions, Allurements, &c which might draw you to sin. You would watch in all Times, in all Companies, good and bad, in all Places: None are so secure, but you may fall into sin, if you be neglective of your Christian Watch.