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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.
1. No other way, but by virtue of our Union with Christ. In our selves we were dead Branches, and grew upon a dead stock; and there was no help, nor hope for us, till we were cut off from our own stocks: the stock of Nature; And were ingrafted into ⟨p. 62⟩Christ, who is the Stock of Life. Hence the Apostle. — He that hath the Son hath Life; and he that hath not the Son, hath not Life. He that is united and ingrafted into Christ, hath Life; the Life of Justification here; and shall have the Life of Glorification hereafter. — But he that hath not the Son — He, who is not united to Christ, hath not Life: Nor the Life of Justification here: Nor the Life of Glorification hereafter. So that you see, there is no Hope of Life, or Justification, except we be united to Christ; who hath all Life in him. There's nothing but death in the World, out of him: And there's no way to have Union with Christ, but by Faith, which is one bond of our Union with Christ.
1. No other way, but by vertue of our Union with Christ. In our selves wee were dead Branches, and grew upon a dead stock; and there was no help, nor hope for us, till wee were cut off from our own stocks: the stock of Nature; And were ingrafted into ⟨p. 62⟩Christ, who is the Stock of Life. Hence the Apostle. — Hee that hath the Son hath Life; and hee that hath not the Son, hath not Life. Hee that is united and ingrafted into Christ, hath Life; the Life of Justification here; and shall have the Life of Glorification hereafter. — But hee that hath not the Son — Hee, who is not united to Christ, hath not Life: Nor the Life of Justification here: Nor the Life of Glorification hereafter. So that you see, there is no Hope of Life, or Justification, except wee bee united to Christ; who hath all Life in him. There's nothing but death in the World, out of him: And there's no way to have Union with Christ, but by Faith, which is one bond of our Union with Christ.
It is Faith that unites us to Christ, as Members to the Head. And being Members of Christ, God pardons us.