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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.
4. The fourth Reason is, Ephes. 2.9. That no man might boast; That is, That no man might have cause to glory in himself, or rejoice in himself.
4. The fourth Reason is, Ephes. 2.9. That no man might boast; That is, That no man might have cause to glory in himself, or rejoyce in himself.
Now, if it had been by any other way, by any thing done by us; we should have gloried. And therefore God chose this way, that we might glory alone in him, 1 Cor. 1.30, 31. — That no flesh might glory in his presence: Christ is made Wisdom, Righteousness, Sanctification and Redemption, that he that glories, might glory in the Lord, Isa. 45.24, 25. — In me you shall have Righteousness and strength, and in me you shall glory.
Now, if it had been by any other way, by any thing done by us; wee should have gloried. And therefore God chose this way, that wee might glory alone in him, 1 Cor. 1.30, 31. — That no flesh might glory in his presence: Christ is made Wisdome, Righteousnes, Sanctification and Redemption, that hee that glories, might glory in the Lord, Isa. 45.24, 25. — In mee you shall have Righteousness and strength, and in mee you shall glory.