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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.
By the one we have Union, by the other Communion with Christ: By the one engraftment into Christ, by the other we have nourishment from Christ. 1By the one Christ is formed in us; by the other Christ grows up in us, to a perfect man.
By the one wee have Union, by the other Communion with Christ: By the one ingraftment into Christ, by the other we have nourishment from Christ. 1By the one Christ is formed in us; by the other Christ grows up in us, to a perfect man.
- 1Christus grandescit in Sanctis
Faith thus feeds upon Christ, who is the sum of all nourishing things: who is the heart, the staff of nourishment. Hence he is called Bread, which is the staff of nourishment.
Faith thus feeds upon Christ, who is the summe of all nourishing things: who is the heart, the staff of nourishment. Hence hee is called Bread, which is the staff of nourishment.
Christ is the heart of nourishment in the Word, in the Sacraments, in every Ordinance: All which are but empty things, ⟨p. 103⟩convey no spiritual strength to us, if we feed not upon Christ in them.
Christ is the heart of nourishment in the Word, in the Sacraments, in every Ordinance: All which are but empty things,