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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.
And indeed of the two, it is better to want the Comforting, than the Quickening-presence. Better to want Comfort than Life; Joys than Graces, or the lively exercise of them. The one is the Esse, the other but the Bene Esse of a Christian. A man may live, and serve God, and obey him; and yet want his Comforting-presence; as you see, Isa. 50.10. But he cannot live without his Quickening-presence.
And indeed of the two, it is better to want the Comforting, than the Quickening-presence. Better to want Comfort than Life; Joies than Graces, or the lively exercise of them. The one is the Esse, the other but the Bene Esse of a Christian. A man may live, and serve God, and obey him; and yet want his Comforting-presence; as you see, Isa. 50.10. But hee cannot live without his Quickenning-presence.
3. God may forsake a man in part, in respect of his Quickening-presence, and he may more forsake a man in respect of his Comforting-presence: But God doth never forsake us in respect of his Supporting-presence.
3. God may forsake a man in part, in respect of his Quickening-presence, and hee may more forsake a man in respect of his Comforting-presence: But God doth never forsake us in respect of his Supporting-presence.
In the saddest condition, in the darkest night, in the stormiest day, the soul hath still support from him.