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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.
There is little difficulty in the words, but what we may make a difficulty.
As indeed it would be a making of difficulties, to go about to expound that which is so plain, rather than an unfolding of them, if I should tell you of the several distinctions men make of sin, Three words in the Hebrew, 1[Greek or Hebrew] By one they will have to be meant Original Sin; by another, Infirmities; by the other your Grosser Sins. But upon examination, I find them used promiscuously; and therefore such distinctions of them hath no bottom.
As indeed it would be a making of difficulties, to go about to expound that which is so plain, rather than an unsolding of them, if I should tell you of the several distinctions men make of sin, Three words in the Hebrew, 1〈non-Latin alphabet〉 By one they will have to be meant Original Sin; by another, Infirmities; by the other your Grosser Sins. But upon examination, I finde them used promiscuously; and therefore such distinctions of them hath no bottom.
The letter of the words, and outward face of the Text, speaks Three Doctrines.