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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.
2. It makes us friends of God. Abraham a Believer, was called Gods Friend: nay, not only Friends, but
2. It makes us friends of God. Abraham a Beleever, was call'd Gods Friend: nay, not only Friends, but
3. It makes us Sons and Daughters of God. — Gal. 3.26. — You are the Children of God by Faith. We may glory in our Pedigree. A Believer is best born, nobly born, Jam. 1.18. — Of his own Will begat he us, by the Word of Truth, Joh. 1.13. — Born of God. Nay
3. It makes us Sons and Daughters of God. — Gal. 3.26. — You are the Children of God by Faith. Wee may glory in our Pedegree. A Beleever is best born, nobly born, Jam. 1.18. — Of his own Will begat hee us, by the Word of Truth, Joh. 1.13. — Born of God. Nay
4. It makes us the Spouse of Christ, who is such as Husband as doth en-noble his Wife. We know among men; The Wife is honoured with her Husbands honour. The Lawyers have a speech, — Mulier fulget Radiis Mariti: The Wife shines with the Husbands Rays: she shines with his brightness. If he be honourable, whatever she was before, yet now she cannot be base: If he be noble, she cannot be ignoble, because he confers and throws all his honours upon his Wife.