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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.
2. All your wants, as well as all your enjoyments are mercy, are love. There is an Expedit in all the sad passages of Gods providence to you. They are Expedient to try you, Expedient to humble ⟨p. 68⟩you, to exercise you, to win you, to wean you, &c.
2. All your wants, as well as all your injoyments are mercy, are love. There is an Expedit in all the sad passages of Gods providence to you. They are Expedient to try you, Expedient to humble ⟨p. 68⟩you, to exercise you, to winne you, to wean you, &c.
Whatever thy condition is, it proceeds, 1. From the best God. 2. From the best of God; his Heart and good will. 3. It is the best for thee.
Wicked men have a curse hid in their best things: a curse in their gold, a curse in their silver, a curse in their health. But Gods people have a blessing hid in the worst things. You have a blessing in poverty, a blessing in sickness, a blessing in crosses, a blessing in death it self.