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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.
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 not his blood within his veins, nor his life within his breast, which he counted too dear for her.
It was not his bloud within his veins, nor his life within his breast, which hee counted too dear for her.
He can beseem to bestow any thing on her.
Hee can beseem to bestow any thing on her.
He will bestow temporals on her,1 at least so much as is necessary for her. All things necessary for life, godliness, if he give himself, how much more all things? Rom. 8.32. will he give the greater, and deny the less? no. That love which gave the greater, will not deny thee the less; if it were good for thee; so much he hath engaged himself by Covenant to give thee as to bear thy charge to Heaven, and then there is no want.
Hee will bestow temporals on her,1 at least so much as is necessary for her. All things necessary for life, godliness, if hee give himself, how much more all things? Rom. 8.32. will hee give the greater, and deny the less? no. That love which gave the greater, will not deny thee the less; if it were good for thee; so much hee hath ingaged himself by Covenant to give thee as to bear thy charge to Heaven, and then there is no want.