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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.
There are two things, which are the most natural acts of Faith.
1. It empties a man of himself. 2. It fills the Soul with Christ.
The Soul cannot be filled with Christ, whilst it is full of it self. And therefore Faith doth first empty a man of himself, cast a man out of himself, and then fills the Soul with Christ.
The Soul cannot bee fill'd with Christ, whilest it is full of it self. And therefore Faith doth first empty a man of himself, cast a man out of himself, and then fills the Soul with Christ.
Faith doth cut a man off his own stock, the stock of Nature, the stock of Death, before it doth ingraft us into Christ, the Stock of Life. Faith doth strip a man of his own clothes, his own Garments, which are too short to cover him, before it puts on the Robes of Christ. It throws us off from our own bottom, whereon we stand, before it set a man upon another Foundation. It makes a man poor in himself, before it enrich him with Christ. It empties a man of himself, before it fill the Soul with Christ.