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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.
Happy had it been for David, and Israel too, if the work had not been done. But Joab goes, and the number is brought in; There were Eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew sword, and the men of Judah were Five hundred thousand.
Well, But what was the Fruit? what was the Effect of this?
1. You read,—Davids heart smote him, Verse 10. that is, His Conscience accused him. If Conscience be not a Bridle, it will be a Whip; if it be not a Curb, it will be a Scourge; if you will not hear the Warnings, you shall feel the Lashings of Conscience; if it do not restrain from sin, Monendo, by Admonition, it will put us to Pain in sin, Mordendo, by Contrition.
2. But there was not all, God would punish him for the sin; And you may read the Sin in the Punishment: He had Gloried in the Number, and therefore God would Lessen the Number.