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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.
But here it may be demanded. Why, when God threatened judgement, David should go and pray for pardon of sin? why did he not desire GOD rather To forbear his strokes? To avert and turn away his wrath? Than merely To Beg pardon of sin? or, if he had desired this, yet why did he not Beg the other, as well as that, and join them together in the same Petition?
But here it may be demanded. Why, when God threatned judgement, David should go and pray for pardon of sin? why did he not desire GOD rather To forbear his strokes? To avert and turn away his wrath? Than meerly To Beg pardon of sin? or, if he had desired this, yet why did he not Beg the other, as well as that, and joyn them together in the same Petition?
Answ. 1. To teach us in all the pressures and evils upon our Outward man, to turn our thoughts Inward, and lament sin.
2. Because he saw sin the Cause of judgement; and therefore desires the removing of this, that so the other might be withdrawn also.
3. Because he knew the judgement could never be removed in Mercy, unless the sin were taken away. Every Preservation is but a Reservation; every Deliverance is in justice, not in mercy, if sin be not taken away.