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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.
It is said of Christ, That — His Government shall be upon his shoulders: Not only in his hand having a Sceptre only to command, but upon his shoulders, wherein there is support to obey commands. So it may be said of Faith, which governeth from Christ, and by Christ, Its Government is upon its shoulder; enabling the soul to do what it commands.
It is said of Christ, That — His Government shall bee upon his shoulders: Not only in his hand having a Scepter only to command, but upon his shoulders, wherein there is support to obey commands. So it may bee said of Faith, which governeth from Christ, and by Christ, Its Government is upon its shoulder; inabling the soul to do what it commands.
1. Faith begets Soul-enabling-Principles; Principles in the soul suitable to the things commanded; whereby a man is enabled to obey.
1. Faith begets Soul-inabling-Principles; Principles in the soul suitable to the things commanded; whereby a man is inabled to obey.
All strength for new Obedience ariseth from a new Nature. And this new Nature is nothing else, but that conformity to the Law of God, whereby a man is not only able to obey, but willing to obey: when Principles are wrought in our hearts suitable to the Precepts: when there is a Law within us, answering to the Law without us: — It will be meat and drink; it will be natural to obey: it is not now hard to pray to clear. — The yoke is easy, the burden is light. These things are not tasks but delights; not medicines, but meat; not physic, but food, Psal. 40. — I delight to do thy Will, saith David: and what was the ground? — Thy Law is in my heart. There were Principles agreeable to the Precepts, and that made him not only to obey, but to obey with delight.