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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.
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 Because he saw sin the Cause of judgement; and therefore desires the removing of this, that so the other might be withdrawn also.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.
4. He was more apprehensive of the Dishonour of GOD, by his sin, than of any judgement that his sin had brought upon him. Or,
4. He was more apprehensive of the Dishonor of GOD, by his sin, than of any judgement that his sin had brought upon him. Or,