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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. In Promises to glorify us, 2 Cor. 7.1.— Having therefore such precious promises, let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. — As if he had said — Seeing God hath been so merciful, and gracious to us, to make us precious Promises, let this put us on self-purging, and self-purifying. Thou lookest for an holy-Heaven, and wilt thou not be holy? Thou hopest for Salvation; and wilt thou not purify thy self? — He that hath this Hope, purifies himself, as God is Pure, 1 Joh. 3.3.
4. In Promises to glorifie us, 2 Cor. 7.1.— Having therefore such precious promises, let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness both of Flesh and Spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. — As if hee had said — Seeing God hath been so mercifull, and gracious to us, to make us precious Promises, let this put us on self-purging, and self-purifying. Thou look'st for an holy-Heaven, and wilt thou not bee holy? Thou hopest for Salvation; and wilt thou not purifie thy self? — Hee that hath this Hope, purifies himself, as God is Pure, 1 Joh. 3.3.
Thus doth Faith take up Arguments from God, his Nature, his Mercies.
2. It takes Arguments from our selves, 1. From the necessity of being cleansed. 2. From the conveniency thereof.