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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.
1. It sets a man upon a Soul-Security-Bottom; which is God himself; Christ himself. This is that Bottom David cried to be set upon. — Set me upon the Rock, that is higher than I. Why one would have thought, David had been secure enough upon his own Bottom; ⟨p. 76⟩He had a good bottom to stand on, if there be one in the World. He was a King, and had provisions for safety. If any man might be secure, then he. But he sees he could not be secure in himself.
1. It sets a man upon a Soul-Security-Bottom; which is God himself; Christ himself. This is that Bottom David cryed to bee set upon. — Set mee upon the Rock, that is higher than I. Why one would have thought, David had been secure enough upon his own Bottom; ⟨p. 76⟩Hee had a good bottom to stand on, if there bee one in the World. Hee was a King, and had provisions for safety. If any man might be secure, then he. But hee sees hee could not be secure in himself.
— His feet began to sink: And therefore cries out for a better bottom. Oh! Set me upon the Rock, that is higher than I.
— His feet began to sink: And therefore crys out for a better bottom. Oh! Set me upon the Rock, that is higher than I.
Time was, a Man was his own bottom: A bottom to himself; But it was but a Sandy-bottom. Even in his Innocency there was no Security in it. But now God hath appointed our Bottom to be out of our selves, and to be in him. And therefore our conditions are secure: the Soul that stands on this bottom, is safe, is secure.