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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. 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.
2. The Conveniency: This is fully made out in the necessity of it; and that with an advantage, there is such a conveniency, as that it riseth up to a necessity in all the former particulars; so that to an holy heart there is a moral impossibility of the contrary. How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God, said Joseph? Gen. 39.9.
2. The Conveniency: This is fully made out in the necessity of it; and that with an advantage, there is such a conveniency, as that it riseth up to a necessity in all the former particulars; so that to an holy heart there is a moral impossibility of the contrary. How can I do this great wickednesse, and sin against God, said Joseph? Gen. 39.9.