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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.
Eight Royalty. 8. Christ is an Heart-transforming-Grace.
1Such a Grace as doth transform the Soul into the nature of the Object. Faith is as powerful in this spiritual conception, to work in us the image of the Object seen, as Fantasy is oftentimes in the natural conception.
- 18 Royalty of Faith. Its an Heart-transforming-Grace
The Poets tell us of some that did transform such as beheld them, into stones: such a power there was in the Object, the thing beheld, as to transform say they. But here it is true. If by Faith we cast our Eyes upon Christ, of stones, we shall be ⟨p. 83⟩turned into men; of sinners into Saints; of a hard heart, to a soft and fleshly; of Children of Satan, to the Sons and Daughters of God, Joh. 1.12. — As many as believed on him, to them he gave power to be the Sons of God. Sons, not born of the flesh, or the will of the flesh: but of God, who begets like himself. — As that which is born of flesh, is flesh: So that which is born of the Spirit, is Spirit. — Hence we are said to be — made partakers of the Divine Nature. — To be transformed into the image and likeness of God. To be Holy, as He is Holy: Pure as He is Pure. To be as he is in this World.