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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.
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.
David, Job, Heman, they wanted the Comforting-presence of God for a time; but yet they had his Quickening, and they had his Supporting presence.
As he told Paul, so he did for all. His strength was seen in their weakness, and his Grace was sufficient for them. Sufficient to bear them up in the trial, and sufficient to bring them out of the trial. So much for the second Conclusion.