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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.
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 ⟨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 hee 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 rejoyced in; hee was the Son of his Love. Now to part with such a Son was a great tryal.
But here was not all the trial. If he had but parted with him in the way of Nature, by a natural death; this had not been so much: but to part with him in way of Sacrifice, wherein he was to be cut in pieces; nay, and he himself must be the Butcher of this Son of his Love; must imbrue his own hands in the blood of this Son. This was a great trial; yet here was seen the power of Faith, that it enabled him to obey. He did not consult with Flesh and Blood; did not dispute, but obey — By Faith he obeyed.
But here was not all the tryal. If hee had but parted with him in the way of Nature, by a natural death; this had not been so much: but to part with him in way of Sacrifice, wherein hee was to bee cut in peeces; nay, and hee himself must bee the Butcher of this Son of his Love; must imbrue his own hands in the blood of this Son. This was a great tryal; yet here was seen the power of Faith, tht it inabled him to obey. Hee did not consult with Flesh and Blood; did not dispute, but obey — By Faith hee obeyed.