A28620:1422
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.
It is such a Grace, as gives God all the Glory: As it was said of Abraham — He gave glory to God by believing, Rom. 4. He gave glory to his Truth, to his Power, to his Wisdom, to his Mercy: So this Grace in the Justification of a sinner, it gives God all the glory, it robs him not of any piece of Glory, it gives him the glory of his Mercy, of his Truth,— He that believes, puts to his seal, that God is true. It sets up God, makes him Alpha and Omega, the beginner and finisher of all. And therefore it being a Grace that honours God above all, therefore God honours it above all other, making it the Instrument of Justification.
It is such a Grace, as gives God all the Glory: As it was said of Abraham — Hee gave glory to God by beleeving, Rom. 4. Hee gave glory to his Truth, to his Power, to his Wisdome, to his Mercy: So this Grace in the Justification of a sinner, it gives God all the glory, it robs him not of any peece of Glory, it gives him the glory of his Mercy, of his Truth,— Hee that beleeves, puts to his seal, that God is true. It sets up God, makes him Alpha and Omega, the beginner and finisher of all. And therefore it being a Grace that honours God above all, therefore God honours it above all other, making it the Instrument of Justification.
And therefore, my Brethren, if ever you would have pardon from him, give him the glory of his own Free-Grace.
Here is the controversy between God and man, to this day. God is willing to save us, if we will give him his Glory: But our proud hearts will not yield to that, That God should be all in all.
Here is the controversie between God and man, to this day. God is willing to save us, if wee will give him his Glory: But our proud hearts will not yeeld to that, That God should bee all in all.