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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
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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.
I,1 but (will some say) it was never good World since so much preaching came amongst us;2 when there was less preaching, there was more plenty: and therefore, it seems, there is little good in it. Since this new Religion was on foot, (for so some ignorantly and maliciously call it, though it be as old as God himself, whose eternal Truth it is; as old as the Patriarchs and Prophets, as Christ and his Apostles) there hath been (say they) more scarcity of all things, more Plagues, Famines, strange apparitions, extremity of seasons, and other Judgements, than ever our fore-fathers ⟨p. 79⟩saw, or heard of. Hospitality, Charity, Pastimes, and Plenty were banished with the old Religion; for so they call the bloody and idolatrous Heresy of Popery.
I,1 but (will some say) it was never good World since so much preaching came amongst us;2 when there was lesse preaching, there was more plentie: and therefore, it seemes, there is little good in it. Since this new Religion was on foot, (for so some ignorantly and maliciously call it, though it be as old as God himselfe, whose eternall Truth it is; as old as the Patriarks and Prophets, as Christ and his Apostles) there hath beene (say they) more scarcitie of all things, more Plagues, Famines, strange apparitions, extremitie of seasons, and other Iudgements, than ever our fore-fathers ⟨p. 79⟩saw, or heard of. Hospitalitie, Charitie, Pastimes, and Plentie were banished with the old Religion; for so they call the bloudie and idolatrous Heresie of Poperie.
- 1Object. 9.
- 2There was never good world since preaching came in.