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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.
2. Not by Righteousness of Saints, or Angels.
1. Theirs is incommunicable. There's no way, whereby we should have communion with it. They are not of our Natures, to wit, the Angels. There must be an union of Nature, before there can be communion. Nay: But were it communicable: yet it were insufficient. It is but a finite Righteousness, and therefore ⟨p. 63⟩not able to answer an infinite debt.
1. Theirs is incommunicable. There's no way, whereby wee should have communion with it. They are not of our Natures, to wit, the Angels. There must bee an union of Nature, before there can bee communion. Nay: But were it communicable: yet it were insufficient. It is but a finite Righteousness, and therefore ⟨p. 63⟩not able to answer an infinite debt.
If the least sin did lye upon the back of the tallest Angel in Heaven, it were not enough. All the Righteousness he hath would not be enough to save him from Hell. And therefore theirs can do us no good.
If the least sin did lye upon the back of the tallest Angel in Heaven, it were not enough. All the Righteousness hee hath would not bee enough to save him from Hell. And therefore theirs can do us no good.