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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 this you shall see, was Israels spirit, which was so much displeasing to God, Jer. 3.4.—Thou art my Father, and the Guide of my youth—They gave God good words, compassed him about with good expressions. But, saith the Lord—This hast thou done, and yet done as much evil as thou couldst, v. 5.
And this you shall see, was Israels spirit, which was so much displeasing to God, Jer. 3.4.—Thou art my Father, and the Guide of my youth—They gave God good words, compast him about with good expressions. But, saith the Lord—This hast thou done, and yet done as much evil as thou couldst, v. 5.
2. A second sort, who dally with God, are such, who seek the pardon of some sins, but yet keep up the love and liking of others. Thou art, it may be, Pinched and Troubled for some gross sins, and thou beggest a pardon for them; when, it may be, there is some Running-Issue of corruption within, which thou Overlookest; some secret Haunt of Villainy, that thy heart runs out after; which thou canst not leave, which thou hast no mind to part withal.
2. A second sort, who dally with God, are such, who seek the pardon of some sins, but yet keep up the love and liking of others. Thou art, it may be, Pinched and Troubled for some gross sins, and thou beg'st a pardon for them; when, it may be, there is some Running-Issue of corruption within, which thou Overlook'st; some secret Haunt of Villany, that thy heart runs out after; which thou canst not leave, which thou hast no minde to part withal.
Oh! Thou vain man! Thou mayest cry all thy life, and shalt never get good. Thou mayest pray as long as thou wilt: That One sin, kept with love and liking, will Turn all thy prayers into sin. God will never regard the Prayers of a sin-regarding-sinner.