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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.
So the Heart, that is transformed; whereas before it was nothing but a noisome sink of sin, nothing but a Cage of unclean birds, the womb of sin, a seminary of lust: Now it is washed, purged, purified, sanctified, made a fit Receptacle for Christ, an Habitation for God, by his Spirit.
Thus you see Faith is an Heart-transforming-Grace. We cry and say, Oh! If I had another heart I could believe. If my heart were more holy, more sanctified: why the way to get another heart is to believe: do but believe, and you shall see another heart come into you; another Spirit; another Soul. Do but look upon Christ, and you shall be transformed. It is such a look as sends a man away with another heart.
Thus you see Faith is an Heart-transforming-Grace. Wee cry and say, Oh! If I had another heart I could beleeve. If my heart were more holy, more sanctified: why the way to get another heart is to beleeve: do but beleeve, and you shall see another heart come into you; another Spirit; another Soul. Do but look upon Christ, and you shall bee transformed. It is such a look as sends a man away with another heart.
As the Wise men; It is said, — After they had seen Christ, beheld Christ, they went home another way: So, when by Faith we have seen Christ, it sends the Soul another way, with another ⟨p. 84⟩spirit, with other Principles, with other Resolutions.
As the Wise men; It is said, — After they had seen Christ, beheld Christ, they went home another way: So, when by Faith wee have seen Christ, it sends the Soul another way, with another ⟨p. 84⟩