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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.
It was a speech of Bradford—He never left a duty, till, &c.
Will a man in good earnest beg a pardon, who was never attached for Treason, or so much as throughly sensible, that he is guilty of it?
4. A Fourth sort, are such, as cry for Forgiveness, but yet never look after their Prayers. Would you not think it a slighting, if a man, who had offended you, should come and beg a pardon; and as soon as he had said a few words to you, should turn his back, and go away, and never expect, nor wait for an answer from you?
Why thus do you deal with God: You put up prayers, but look not after them. He, who begs in earnest, Oh! he will Diligently observe, what Answer, what Return God makes: He will observe what word of Comfort God lets fall, what intimations God will afford to his spirit, and will be exceeding chary of them. As you see Benhadad's servants did, 1 Kings 20.31, 32, 33. After they had put up their requests, the Text saith— The men did diligently observe, whether any thing would come from Ahab; and did hastily catch at it. So should we do: Come with sackcloth, put up our prayers with remorse; and, when that is done, when we have prayed our prayers, let us wait our prayers, to see what intimations we shall receive from heaven. Thus David,