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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. 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.
1. For the first. God made choice of this, that wee should have Justification by way of beleeving. That it might bee 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, wee must bring so much Humiliation, so much Repentance, so much brokenness of Spirit, so much Grace, so many Prayers, Alms-deeds: and then wee should bee justified: It had not then been of Grace, not of Free-Mercy.
And therefore God, For the advancement of his Free-Grace and Mercy, that we might cry out with them in Zach. 4.7. — Grace, Grace. That we might see, admire, adore, the Riches of his Grace, The height, and depth, and breadth and length of his Free-Mercy. Therefore hath God chose this way for the Justification of a sinner.
And therefore God, For the advancement of his Free-Grace and Mercy, that wee might cry out with them in Zach. 4.7. — Grace, Grace. That wee might see, admire, adore, the Riches of his Grace, The height, and depth, and breadth and length of his Free-Mercy. Therefore hath God chose this way for the Justification of a sinner.