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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.
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.
2. But yet further; It is Contrary to Gods nature. 1God is holy, sin unholy; God is pure, sin is filthy; and therefore compar'd still to the most filthiest things in the world, to the Poyson of Aspes, to Ulcers, Soars, &c. If all the Noysom Pollutions in the world met in one common Stuk, it would never equal the Pollution of sin.
- 12 Sin contrary to Gods Nature.
God is good, perfect Good: Sin is evil, universally evil. There is good in all other things, Plague, Sickness, Hell it self, in a kind, hath a good in it: None in sin.
God is good, perfect Good: Sin is evil, universally evil. There is good in all other things, Plague, Sickness, Hell it self, in a kinde, hath a good in it: None in sin.