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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. Look upon it, In the Glass of Nature; which, though it be but a Dim-Glass, a Blown-Glass: Sin hath dimmed it; yet is this able to discover a great deal of the evil of sin. The very Heathen themselves have seen and judged many sins to be the greatest of evils.
Though Spiritual sins were hid from them, their light was not able to discover Infidelity, and Gospel-sins; yet Moral-sins they have discovered, and have avoided them, and would hazard themselves; nay, and suffer too, rather than they would commit such sins. The examples of Plato, Scipio, Cato, and many others, will clear this.
And all this was discovered by the Glass of Nature, done by Nature; but not by mere Nature fallen, but by Nature well-husbanded, by Nature improved, by the implantation of Moral Principles, together with Restraining Grace, and other common gifts of the Spirit.
And all this was discovered by the Glass of Nature, done by Nature; but not by meer Nature fallen, but by Nature well-husbanded, by Nature improved, by the implantation of Moral Principles, together with Restraining Grace, and other common gifts of the Spirit.