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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.
So that, As David said. — God hath sworn in his Holiness — He had made a Promise to him. And therefore he saith — I will rejoice. I will divide Shechem, and mete out the Valley of Succoth. Gilead is mine: so the soul may say, God hath said, This Son of mine I have given you, Isa. 9.6. And therefore Christ is mine.
So that, As David said. — God hath sworn in his Holiness — He had made a Promise to him. And therefore hee saith — I will rejoyce. I will divide Shechem, and mete out the Valley of Succoth. Gilead is mine: so the soul may say, God hath said, This Son of mine I have given you, Isa. 9.6. And therefore Christ is mine.
3. Why God should make choice of this Grace for our Justification?
Not to say any thing of this, which might be one Reason. That the Remedy might answer the Fall. The Fall was by unbelieving. As you see, He gave credit to the Serpent, and not to God. So God would make our Recovery by Faith. But this we pass.
Not to say any thing of this, which might bee one Reason. That the Remedy might answer the Fall. The Fall was by unbeleeving. As you see, Hee gave credit to the Serpent, and not to God. So God would make our Recovery by Faith. But this wee pass.