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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.
In the first Verse of this present Portion,1 he makes, as it were, a protestation and profession, that he is wholly and only enlightened and led in all his ways by this holy Word of God, as by a Light or Lantern: The brightness thereof doth not only bring him into the ways of righteousness, and blessed estate of Christianity, but doth also conduct and guide him in all the paths and particulars of his life and actions, in all the parts and passages of his special calling: For he saith, Thy Word is a Lamp unto my feet] that is, whereby I see and discern the way to Heaven, and the narrow path through the Kingdom of Grace; and a Light unto my paths] that is, a guide to direct me in every particular step, at every turning, that so I may keep a straight course, and the ready way to the Kingdom of Glory.
In the first Verse of this present Portion,1 hee makes, as it were, a protestation and profe••ion, that he is wholly and onely enlightened and led in all his wayes by this holy Word of God, as by a Light or Lanterne: The brightnesse thereof doth not onely bring him into the wayes of righteousnesse, and blessed estate of Christianitie, but doth also conduct and guide him in all the paths and particulars of his life and actions, in all the parts and passages of his speciall calling: For he saith, Thy Word is a Lampe unto my feet] that is, whereby I see and discerne the way to Heaven, and the narrow path through the Kingdome of Grace; and a Light unto my paths] that is, a guide to direct me in every particular step, at every turning, that so I may keepe a straight course, and the readie way to the Kingdome of Glory.
- 1The fourteenth Part explained.The foureteenth Part explaned.
That David had thus wholly yielded and resigned up himself to be guided and governed by the glorious Light of Gods holy Word, appears in the Verses following.