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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.
Now, if God had pitched it in any other way, than in the way of Believing, his Glory could not have been preserved: we would have been sharers with God; we should have divided the spoils of Glory with him.
Now, if God had pitcht it in any other way, than in the way of Beleeving, his Glory could not have been preserved: wee would have been sharers with God; wee should have divided the spoils of Glory with him.
And therefore God chose this, which is
Nay, such a Grace, as doth throw a man out of himself: empties a man of himself, and casts him upon another. It is such a Grace, as makes the Soul all in another; nothing in it self: Rich in another, poor in it self; found in another, lost in it self: Saved by another, damned by it self. — I live (saith Paul) yet not I, but Christ in me. I live by the Faith of the Son of God, or Faith in the Son of God,