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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.
Ah! none knows but Christ, nor is a finite understanding able to conceive, what Christ underwent, when he was to Bear sin, and with that To wrestle with the infinite wrath and justice of the infinite God; the Terrors of death, and the Powers of the world to come. Here is a Glass, wherein you may see The greatness of sin, The wideness of sin, The guilt of sin, The demerit of sin: All which are set out to the life, in the Death, Sufferings, Breakings and Woundings of the Son of God.
You, that make light of sin, go to Christ, and ask him, How heavy it was; even that, which you make so light of, which pressed him down to the ground. And the least sin would have pressed thee, and all the pillars of heaven, to the Bottom of Hell for ever.
6. A sixth Glass. Look upon sin in the Damnation of the soul for ever; that nothing would satisfy the justice of God, but the Destruction of the Creature. No Sickness, no Prisons; no Blood, no Sufferings, but the Sufferings of Hell: And those not for a Time, but for Ever. Ah! see here the greatness of sin; which might be further amplified by the consideration of the preciousness of the soul, which yet sin ruins to all eternity. And therefore would you know sin? Quaere Damnatos, Ask the damned what sin is. Lay thy Ear to Hell, and hear those Skreechings, those Howlings, those Roarings of the Damned. And all this is for sin. Oh they are dear-bought pleasures, which must be thus payed for with everlasting pains.
6. A sixth Glass. Look upon sin in the Damnation of the soul for ever; that nothing would satisfie the justice of God, but the Destruction of the Creature. No Sickness, no Prisons; no Blood, no Sufferings, but the Sufferings of Hell: And those not for a Time, but for Ever. Ah! see here the greatness of sin; which might be further amplified by the consideration of the preciousness of the soul, which yet sin ruines to all eternity. And therefore would you know sin? Quaere Damnatos, Ask the damned what sin is. Lay thy Ear to Hell, and hear those Skreechings, those Howlings, those Roarings of the Damned. And all this is for sin. Oh they are dear-bought pleasures, which must be thus payed for with everlasting pains.