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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.
2. It takes Arguments from our selves, 1. From the necessity of being cleansed. 2. From the conveniency thereof.
1 From the Necessity: Because otherwise, we can have no assurance of Justification. They who are freed from the guilt of sin, are freed from the filth of sin. They who partake of the Blood of Christ for pardon, partake of the water of Christ, to purge. — Christ came by Water and Blood. They who will have him a Redeemer, must have him also a Refiner, to take away their Swinish nature, to wash them inwardly; not outwardly: for so may a Swine be.
1 From the Necessity: Because otherwise, wee can have no assurance of Justification. They who are freed from the guilt of sin, are freed from the filth of sin. They who partake of the Blood of Christ for pardon, partake of the water of Christ, to purge. — Christ came by Water and Blood. They who will have him a Redeemer, must have him also a Refiner, to take away their Swini•h nature, to wash them inwardly; not outwardly: for so may a Swine bee.
2. Because otherwise we can never have Assurance of Salvation. — They who look for new Heavens must have new hearts. They who look for Glory, must have Grace: First Grace, then Glory.—For without Holiness no man can see the Lord. — No unclean thing shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven — he that hath this hope, will fit himself for the Place, he will labour to be a pure person; as he desires to enjoy a pure place. — Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. A pure God, a pure Heaven, a pure Place, requires a pure Person.
2. Because otherwise wee can never have Assurance of Salvation. — They who look for new Heavens must have new hearts. They who look for Glory, must have Grace: First Grace, then Glory.—For without Holiness no man can see the Lord. — No unclean thing shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven — hee that hath this hope, will fit himself for the Place, hee will labour to bee a pure person; as hee desires to injoy a pure place. — Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. A pure God, a pure Heaven, a pure Place, requires a pure Person.