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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.
And it cost no less than the Blood of Christ, to procure thee this time; it was that that made a stop of the present proceedings of Gods justice against thee; else thou hadst been in Hell long ago.
And wilt thou Squander away This Time? wilt thou Neglect This Business? wilt thou eat away, sleep away, nay, drink away, sin away a Pardon?
If there were a man condemned to dye, and yet were, out of Mercy, Reprieved, That he might procure his Pardon, and the King were willing to grant him a pardon; would you not think that man deserves to die, who shall now spend this time in drinking, in revelling, &c? why this is your case.
If there were a man condemned to dye, and yet were, out of Mercy, Reprived, That hee might procure his Pardon, and the King were willing to grant him a pardon; would you not think that man deserves to dy, who shall now spend this time in drinking, in revelling, &c? why this is your case.
But yet there is another sort that will seek for a pardon; but they seek it coldly, they seek it formally, they seek it slightly and superficially, they seek it as if they had no need of it; as if they could do well enough, though they wanted a Pardon.