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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.
Tenth Royalty. 10 Faith is an Heart-enabling-Grace.
Tenth Royalty. 10 Faith is an Heart-inabling-Grace.
A Believing Christian is a strong Christian. He is strong for any service. It is said; — By Faith Abraham obeyed God. Faith did enable him to obey. And it was a great act of Obedience, as you may read; scil. The offering of his Son, his only Son, the Son of his ⟨p. 91⟩love. If it had been an adopted Son only, and not his Natural, or if his Natural, and but one among many, the trial had not been so great, But he was his own, and only Son, and the Son of his old age; and therefore like to have no more; the Son of the promise; not an Ismael, but an Isaac, a Son long expected, now exceedingly rejoiced in; he was the Son of his Love. Now to part with such a Son was a great trial.
A Beleeving Christian is a strong Christian. He is strong for any service. It is said; — By Faith Abraham obeyed God. Faith did inable him to obey. And it was a great act of Obedience, as you may read; scil. The offering of his Son, his only Son, the Son of his