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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.
It is Faith that unites us to Christ, as Members to the Head. And being Members of Christ, God pardons us.
If a Malefactor had committed treason against a King, and were adjudged to lose his hand, or his eye. If he could now make his Hand, or his eye which he were to lose, to become the Hand, or the eye of the Kings Son: He should be spared; he should not lose them: They were the hands and the eyes of the Kings Son: And the King would spare them for his Sons sake: So here.
If a Malefactor had committed treason against a King, and were adjudged to lose his hand, or his eye. If hee could now make his Hand, or his eye which hee were to lose, to become the Hand, or the eye of the Kings Son: Hee should bee spared; hee should not lose them: They were the hands and the eyes of the Kings Son: And the King would spare them for his Sons sake: So here.
We were guilty of Treason; were condemned to death. Now this is the dexterity of Faith, to make our selves to be Members of Christ: It is Faith that doth ingraft us into Christ; whereas before we grew upon dead stocks: now being ingrafted into the stock of Christ, the stock of Life, we have Life derived to us.
Wee were guilty of Treason; were condemned to death. Now this is the dexterity of Faith, to make our selves to bee Members of Christ: It is Faith that doth ingraft us into Christ; whereas before wee grew upon dead stocks: now being ingrafted into the stock of Christ, the stock of Life, wee have Life derived to us.