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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.
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.
Indeed a man may build a weak house upon a strong foundation, and the house fall for all that: because the rock is a dead thing; and cannot impart any of its strength unto the structure.
But it is not so here. Be the building never so weak: yet this Rock can hold it up: because it diffuseth its strength into the building. Hence 1 Pet. 2.4, 5. Christ is called a living, not a dead, Rock—A living stone.—To whom coming as to a living Stone, we also as lively-stones are built up a spiritual house. Which shows the transformation of the building into the nature and firmness of the Rock.
But it is not so here. Bee the building never so weak: yet this Rock can hold it up: because it diffuseth its strength into the building. Hence 1 Pet. 2.4, 5. Christ is called a living, not a dead, Rock—A living stone.—To whom comming as to a living Stone, wee also as lively-stones are built up a spiritual house. Which shews the transformation of the building into the nature and firmnesse of the Rock.