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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.
Hence is it, that Christ turneth the sadest and sorest perplexities that ever the World shall see, into an use of Comfort to his Church, Luk. 21.25, 26, 27, 28. There shall be signs in the Sun; and Moon, and Stars, distress of Nations, with perplexity, &c. Mens hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the World; for the Powers of Heaven shall be shaken; and then shall they see the Son of Man coming in a Cloud, with Power and great Glory. When these things begin to come to pass — then look up, and lift up your heads: for your Redemption draweth nigh.
Hence is it, that Christ turneth the sadest and sorest perplexities that ever the World shall see, into an use of Comfort to his Church, Luk. 21.25, 26, 27, 28. There shall bee signs in the Sun; and Moon, and Stars, distress of Nations, with perplexity, &c. Mens hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are comming on the World; for the Powers of Heaven shall bee shaken; and then shall they see the Son of Man comming in a Cloud, with Power and great Glory. When these things begin to come to pass — then look up, and lift up your heads: for your Redemption draweth nigh.
One would think this were a strange consequent deduced from such an Antecedent. A Consequent so comfortable, from an Antecedent so terrible. It seems strange, that such a terrible Doctrine as this, should afford an use of Consolation. Yet so it is. Be the Premises what they will, the Conclusion is good. Be his Providences what they will, his Promises are good: and those Promises shall turn all his Providences to good at the last.
One would think this were a strange consequent deduced from such an Antecedent. A Consequent so comfortable, from an Antecedent so terrible. It seems strange, that such a terrible Doctrin as this, should afford an use of Consolation. Yet so it is. Bee the Premises what they will, the Conclusion is good. Bee his Providences what they will, his Promises are good: and those Promises shall turn all his Providences to good at the last.