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A three-fold treatise
A three-fold treatise containing the saints sure and perpetual guide. Self-enriching examination. Soul-fating fasting. Or, meditations, concerning the word, the sacrament of the Lords Supper, and fasting. By the labours of that late Reverend, and learned divine, Master Robert Bolton ...A three-fold treatise containing the saints sure and perpetuall guide. Selfe-enriching examination. Soule-fatting fasting. Or, meditations, concerning the word, the sacrament of the Lords Supper, and fasting. By the labours of that late Reverend, and learned divine, Master Robert Bolton ...
London: printed by E. Purslow for Ralph Harford, 1634London: printed by E. Purslow for Raphe Harford, 1634
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE SAINTS SURE AND PERPETUAL GUIDE.THE SAINTS SVRE AND PERPETVALL GVIDE.
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.
It is not Satan's: For he in all ages hath fiercely and furiously set himself against it; and it is the engine that batters and beats down his kingdom of darkness.
It is not Satans: For he in all ages hath fiercely and furiously set himselfe against it; and it is the engine that batters and beats downe his kingdome of darknesse.
It is not any Angels, or other creatures: For the *Majesty, excellency, miraculous efficacy, and wonderful power of Gods Word, is far above the reach and capacity of any creature; transcendent to all created understandings, and finite comprehension. Besides, the famous miracles, the many visions, the true fore-telling of things to come▪ the inward, lively and effectual workings upon the souls of the elect, and many other singular and sacred marks & characters of divinity stamped upon it, doth plainly show, that it is the alone holy invention of Gods divine, pure and infinite understanding, and revealed to the world for the enlarging of Gods glory, and the salvation ⟨p. 51⟩of many a thousand souls; for the confusion of the kingdom of Satan, and just condemnation of the children of hell. Take heed then in the name of God, that you give not entrance or entertainment to any such fearful blasphemous temptation, whereby the love and zeal to Gods Word may be cooled, or you grow less careful in purchasing and practising the knowledge and power of it. This let lays hold only upon men of a reprobate sense, and those that are already marked out for certain damnation.
It is not any Angels, or other creatures: For the *Majestie, excellencie, miraculous efficacie, and wonderfull power of Gods Word, is farre above the reach and capacity of any creature; transcendent to all created understandings, and finite comprehension. Besides, the famous miracles, the many visions, the true fore-telling of things to come the inward, lively and effectuall workings upon the soules of the elect, and many other singular and sacred markes & characters of divinity stamped upon it, doth plainly shew, that it is the alone holy invention of Gods divine, pure and infinite understanding, and revealed to the world for the inlarging of Gods glory, and the salvation