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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.
Every man would willingly be something in himself, stand upon his own bottom. God is willing to give us a Righteousness ⟨p. 67⟩wrought out for us: But we would have a Righteousness of our own making. We love the Spiders motto. — Mihi soli debeo. To owe nothing to any, but to our selves.
Every man would willingly bee something in himself, stand upon his own bottom. God is willing to give us a Righteousness ⟨p. 67⟩wrought out for us: But wee would have a Righteousness of our own making. Wee love the Spiders motto. — Mihi soli debeo. To owe nothing to any, but to our selves.
We are too like that proud Papist, who said, — He would not have Heaven Gratis, we would merit it.
Wee are too like that proud Papist, who said, — Hee would not have Heaven Gratis, wee would merit it.
God is willing to give us objective worthiness, worthiness in another, in Christ. But we would have subjective worthiness: A worth in our selves. But this will not be allowed. God will have us poor in our selves, empty in our selves, cast out of our selves, unbottomed of our selves. He will have us poor, and blind, and naked, before he will bestow mercy on us.
God is willing to give us objective worthiness, worthiness in another, in Christ. But wee would have subjective worthiness: A worth in our selves. But this will not bee allowed. God will have us poor in our selves, empty in our selves, cast out of our selves, unbottomed of our selves. Hee will have us poor, and blind, and naked, before hee will bestow mercy on us.