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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.
5. Faith makes us the Members of Christ, who is such an Head as doth en-noble his Members. Christ throws more Glory and Honour upon the meanest Member of his Body, than all the World is able to make us heirs of. It were better to be the meanest Member of Christ, than to have all the Glory of the World, out of Christ; better to be the meanest twig in this Vine,1 than to be the most glorious branch in the World, out of Christ. Better it is not to be at all, than not to be in Christ.
5. Faith makes us the Members of Christ, who is such an Head as doth en-noble his Members. Christ throws more Glory and Honour upon the meanest Member of his Body, than all the World is able to make us heirs of. It were better to bee the meanest Member of Christ, than to have all the Glory of the World, out of Christ; better to bee the meanest twig in this Vine,1 than to bee the most glorious branch in the World, out of Christ. Better it is not to bee at all, than not to bee in Christ.
- 1Meliùs non •• se, quàm sine Christo esse.
3. Faith puts us upon Soul-in-nobling employments.
3. Faith puts us upon Soul-in-nobling imployments.
It puts a man upon Prayer, Holy exercises, Communion with God; which are noble Employments, above the World. Faith makes the soul live high, above the World, above the Earth. Faith carries the soul to Heaven, makes it live were it had its First breath, and being, makes our way to lye above, our Conversation to be in Heaven, our joys to be there, our affections there, our hearts there. — By Faith Enoch walked with God; he conversed with God, had to do with God daily, the great God of Heaven and Earth daily in supplications and meditations, and holy conversation. All which are noble employments. The higher the person we have to do withal, the more noble are the employments.