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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 It is contrary to the works of God. 1As soon as God set up and perfected the frame of the world, sin gave a shrewd shake to all, it unpinned this frame, and had like to have pulled all in pieces again. And had it not been for the promise of Christ, all this frame had fallen in pieces again.
1 It is contrary to the works of God. 1As soon as God set up and perfected the frame of the world, sin gave a shrewd shake to all, it unpin'd this frame, and had like to have pull'd all in pieces again. And had it not been for the promise of Christ, all this frame had fallen in pieces again.
- 11 Sin contrary to Gods works.
If a man should come into a curious Artificers shop, and should with one blow dash in pieces a Piece of Art, which cost him many years study and pains the contriving of it. How could he bear with it? Thus sin did, and yet that God should forbear, Oh! Omnipotent patience!
2. But yet further; It is Contrary to Gods nature. 1God is holy, sin unholy; God is pure, sin is filthy; and therefore compared still to the most filthiest things in the world, to the Poison of Asps, to Ulcers, Soars, &c. If all the Noisome Pollutions in the world met in one common Stock, it would never equal the Pollution of sin.