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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
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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.
5. Deceitful in its Promises. And therefore will he keep an holy circumspection, an humble, awful; jealous fear over his own spirit, lest he should fall into sin. He looks on sin, as his Greatest Evil; and his Greatest care and endeavours are to avoid sin.
5. Deceitful in its Promises. And therefore will he keep an holy circumspection, an humble, awful; jealous fear over his own spirit, lest he should fall into sin. He looks on sin, as his Greatest Evil; and his Greatest care and endeavors are to avoid sin.
4. If sin be the Greatest Evil, 1Then should it be our chiefest endeavours to be rid of sin. Every man would labour to be rid of an Evil, and the Greater the Evil, the greater is our desire to be rid thereof.
4. If sin be the Greatest Evil, 1Then should it be our chiefest endeavors to be rid of sin. Every man would labor to be rid of an Evil, and the Greater the Evil, the greater is our desire to be rid thereof.
- 14. Sin calls for greatest endeavours to be rid of it.4. Sin calls for greatest endeavors to be rid of it.
Now sin is the Greatest of Evils: How much more then should we labour and endeavour to be Rid of the Greatest of Evils?