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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.
We read in Scripture of four grounds, wherefore God made choice of this Grace for the Justification of a sinner.
Wee read in Scripture of four grounds, wherefore God made choice of this Grace for the Justification of a sinner.
1. That Justification might be of Grace, 2. That the Promise might be sure. 3. That it might be to all the seed. 4. That no man might boast.
1. That Justification might bee of Grace, 2. That the Promise might bee sure. 3. That it might bee to all the seed. 4. That no man might boast.
The three former you shall read, Rom. 4.16. The last, Ephes. 2.9.
1. For the first. God made choice of this, that we should have Justification by way of believing. That it might be by Grace. If it had been by any other way; by reason of any thing wrought in us, or by us; If it had been by Desert, not of Grace; of Wages, not of Mercy; of Debt, not of Favour: If God had promised Justification upon any work of ours; had told us, we must bring so much Humiliation, so much Repentance, so much brokenness of Spirit, so much Grace, so many Prayers, Alms-deeds: and then we should be justified: It had not then been of Grace, not of Free-Mercy.