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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.
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.
Thus you see, Faith is a soul-securing-grace.
It sets a man upon a soul-securing-bottom. It makes God our security, who is called, The strong-God. The mighty-God. The Rock of Refuge. A defence. A Shield. A Tower. A Fort. An High-place, Mich. 4.8. The Tower of his Flock. The strong hold of the daughter of Zion. A Covert from the storm, Isay 32.1, 2.
It sets a man upon a soul-securing-bottome. It makes God our security, who is called, The strong-God. The mighty-God. The Rock of Refuge. A defense. A Shield. A Tower. A Fort. An High-place, Mich. 4.8