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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. If sin be the Greatest Evil, Then let us rather choose to fall into the Greatest Evil in the world, than into the least evil of sin.
All other Evils have some Good in them, and are to be the Objects of Choice, in case we cannot avoid them, but we must admit of sin. Thus you see Moses did; as you may read, Heb. 11. —He chose rather to be afflicted with the people God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
But now sin, it is All-evil, and No-good; and there is nothing in the world should make us to choose sin.
But now sin, it is All-evil, and No-good; and there is nothing in the world should make us to chuse sin.
2. Is sin the Greatest Evil? Let this then put us on to pity and pray for such, who are under a state of sin. You pity sick Friends, poor Friends, undone Friends. But alas! what are all these evils, to the evil of sin? what is Poverty? what is Sickness? what is anything, to the Evil of Sin? All these are but Outward: this is an Inward Evil. All these are but of a Temporal nature; Death but a Conclusion to them all. But this is of an Eternal nature. All other will never make you the Object of Gods wrath and hatred.