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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.
That he will not forsake his Church, as Forsaking hath relation to temporal and outward distresses.
That hee will not forsake his Church, as Forsaking hath relation to temporal and outward distresses.
You may take his word for it, Josh. 1.5. I will not leave, nor forsake thee.
It is true, it was a promise made to Joshua in particular; but belongs to the whole Church of God in general.
General promises may have particular applications, and particular general.
As general promises belong to every particular Member: so particular promises may belong to the whole body. And therefore though it was a promise to Joshua; yet the Apostle (who knew the mind of God makes it ours, as well as his. He brings it into the Common-stock, and shows it part of our riches,