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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.
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.
Time was, a Man was his own bottome: A bottome to himself; But it was but a Sandy-bottome. Even in his Innocency there was no Security in it. But now God hath appointed our Bottome to bee out of our selves, and to bee in him. And therefore our conditions are secure: the Soul that stands on this bottome, is safe, is secure.
This Christ sets down in the Parable of the Ho•se built upon a Rock; that is, upon himself. Though The winds blow, the waves and billows beat; yet there is no danger of our fall.—We stand upon a Rock.
Why, but may not a Weak and Tottering house be built upon a strong foundation? And what is it then the surer for the Foundation? It may be blown down, though the foundation be never so strong. Yea, But no Christ is such a Rock, as doth derive virtue and strength unto the structure and building.
Why, but may not a Weak and Tottering house bee built upon a strong foundation? And what is it then the surer for the Foundation? It may bee blown down, though the foundation bee never so strong. Yea, But no Christ is such a Rock, as doth derive vertue and strength unto the structure and building.