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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.
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, ⟨p. 103⟩convey no spiritual strength to us, if wee feed not upon Christ in them.
If Christ do withdraw himself from the Ordinances; If we feed not upon Christ in them, they will do us no good. If we feed not upon Christ in the Word, the Word will not profit. If we feed not upon Christ in the Sacraments, the Sacraments will not nourish.
If Christ do withdraw himself from the Ordinances; If wee feed not upon Christ in them, they will do us no good. If wee feed not upon Christ in the Word, the Word will not profit. If wee feed not upon Christ in the Sacraments, the Sacraments will not nourish.