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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.
2. Nor was there any thing, we could do, to purchase it.
All our Prayers, our Tears, our Services, could not purchase the Pardon of one sin. If for the Active Part we could do as much, and for the Passive part we could suffer as much as all the Saints, put together, have done from the beginning of the world to this day.
If we should weep as many Tears, as the Sea holds drops; if we should humble our selves as many days, as the world hath stood minutes from the creation, &c. All this were Too short to purchase us the Pardon of one sin, though we did all without sin.
If we should weep as many Tears, as the Sea holds drops; if we should humble our selves as many days, as the world hath stood minutes from the creation, &c. All this were Too short to purchase us the Pardon of one sin, though vve did all vvithout sin.
But Alas! All that ever we can do, is so far from striking ⟨p. 33⟩