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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.
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.
And therefore spend some tears, put up some prayers for such, who are under the state of sin. O (saith Abraham) that Ismael might live in thy sight! So say thou, There is such a Friend, and such a Friend, a Brother, a Father, &c. who lies under sin, is in a state of sin; Oh! that thou wouldst pity their souls! Oh! that thou wouldst snatch them out of the state of sin!
3. If sin be so Great an Evil, Let us then fall down and Admire,
1. The greatness of Gods Patience in bearing with sinners.