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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.
There is a great deal of dallying with God, about this Great business. Most men in the World do but Trifle with God about it.
I will name you five or six sorts of men, who are Tristers with GOD, in this main, and concerning matter; and these none of the meanest neither. I shall not now deal with your Debauched People; but such as will seem to do somewhat for a pardon.
I will name you five or six sorts of men, who are Tristers with GOD, in this main, and concerning matter; and these none of the meanest neither. I shall not now deal with your Debaucht People; but such as will seem to do somewhat for a pardon.
1 Such, who will seek, and perhaps cry earnestly; but yet still continue in the practice of those sins, which they beg a pardon of.
I speak not now of Sins of Course.—Peccata quotidianae incursionis: Sins of daily incursion: Sins of Infirmity, weakness and Imperfections in Duty; These the best, notwithstanding their daily praying for pardon of, do yet too often fall into.