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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.
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.
Men may live out their days under the Ordinances; come to the Word, and to the Sacraments; and yet, when all is done, be like Pharaohs lean Kine, never the fatter for all this food, if they feed not upon Christ in them.
Men may live out their dayes under the Ordinances; come to the Word, and to the Sacraments; and yet, when all is done, bee like Pharaohs lean Kine, never the fatter for all this food, if they feed not upon Christ in them.
And it is suspicious, when men live under such precious Ordinances, and yet grow no more, that surely they feed not on Christ.
And it is suspitious, when men live under such precious Ordinances, and yet grow no more, that surely they feed not on Christ.