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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.
5. It is an irrevocable-mercy—God may give in other mercies, and call for them again. Indeed other things are rather lent, than given: Lent Husband, Lent Wife, &c. Hence they are said to be but Talents in our hands, and we Stewards of them ⟨p. 34⟩for a time. God may call for them when he pleaseth; or we may forfeit them, and lose them.
How often do we forfeit and lose good things, because of our unworthy walking in the enjoyment thereof? Hos, 2.8, 9—I will take away my corn in the time thereof; my wine, and my flax in their season. [Mine] It was Gods. And, would you know the reason? see in the former verse, Because they did not acknowledge him as the giver of them, but bestowed them on Baal, as though he had given them.
But now this Mercy is an irrevocable Mercy: A mercy that God never recalls; A Mercy, God never repents of—The gifts and graces of God are without repentance—And it is a Mercy never forfeited.
But now this Mercy is an irrevocable Mercy: A mercy that God never recals; A Mercy, God never repents of—The gifts and graces of God are without repentance—And it is a Mercy never forfeited.