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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.
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.
God will not have us bring our penny to his purchase: One dram to this fullness; one shred to this garment of Christ. He will have it by Faith, that so it might be of Grace; that not we, but he might have all the Glory.
God will not have us bring our penny to his purchase: One dram to this fulness; one shred to this garment of Christ. Hee will have it by Faith, that so it might bee of Grace; that not wee, but hee might have all the Glory.
This is one Reason I am persuaded of the enlargement of our troubles of spirit, and breakings; Because we will not let God be all in all: we will not let God have all the Glory. Glad we should be, to be sharers in our own Salvation. Glad, to do something. We would have it of Debt, not of Grace; of Works, not of Faith; of Merit, not of Mercy.
This is one Reason I am perswaded of the enlargement of our troubles of spirit, and breakings; Because wee will not let God be all in all: wee will not let God have all the Glory. Glad we should bee, to bee sharers in our own Salvation. Glad, to do something. We would have it of Debt, not of Grace; of Works, not of Faith; of Merit, not of Mercy.