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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.
SIN THE GREATEST EVIL▪ › USE.SINNE THE GREATEST EVIL▪ › USE.
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.
See then, what need there is, To Aggravate sin to the utmost; because we cannot multiply sin to the greatness of it. There will be many singular fruits of so doing.
1. This will breed shame and confusion of spirit for sin.
2. This will make you advance, and relish mercy better.
When the debt seems little, we are ready and apt to undervalue a pardon. But, when sin appears exceeding sinful, this doth make us value mercy, prize a pardon.
When sin is seen the greatest Evil, Mercy and Pardon will be apprehended the greatest Good.