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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.
Christ is the breeder, and the feeder of spiritual life: the begetter and the nourisher of life in us. Hence he is called —The Bread of Life. Not only bread to beget life in dead men: but bread to nourish and increase life in living men. And by Faith we feed upon Christ; Faith is the Organ whereby we feed upon Christ, and gets nourishment for it self, and all its fellow-Graces.
Christ is the breeder, and the feeder of spiritual life: the begetter and the nourisher of life in us. Hence hee is call'd —The Bread of Life. Not only bread to beget life in dead men: but bread to nourish and increase life in living men. And by Faith wee feed upon Christ; Faith is the Organ whereby wee feed upon Christ, and gets nourishment for it self, and all its fellow-Graces.
When Faith hath had a good meal here, all the Graces of Gods Spirit are bettered by it: our Love, Humility, &c. All are strengthened by it.
Now Faith feeds upon Christ 1. In the Word. 2. In the Sacrament. Christ is Bread. 1. Spiritual. Panis Spiritualis. 2. Sacramental. Panis Sacramentalis.