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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.
1. It doth empty the Soul of that windy conceit, that Pharisaical Opinion of Righteousness in our selves. Faith doth not empty a man of any Righteousness, but of the false Opinion of Righteousness. It doth not empty us of any worth in our selves, there is none: but of that fond conceit of worth in our selves. Faith makes us see we are worthless Creatures, Rev. 3.17.18. — Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods: I have need of nothing. And knowest not, that thou art wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. — I counsel thee to buy of me Cold, that thou mayest be rich, &c.
1. It doth empty the Soul of that windy conceit, that Pharisaical Opinion of Righteousness in our selves. Faith doth not empty a man of any Righteousness, but of the false Opinion of Righteousness. It doth not empty us of any worth in our selves, there is none: but of that fond conceit of worth in our selves. Faith makes us see wee are worthless Creatures, Rev. 3.17.18. — Thou saiest, I am rich, and increased with goods: I have need of nothing. And knowest not, that thou art wretched and miserable, and poor, and blinde, and naked. — I counsel thee to buy of mee Cold, that thou maiest bee rich, &c.
My Brethren; we are all of us naturally, full of our selves, full of our selves, full of the self of Pride, full of the self of Love, Self-love, full of Self-conceits, full of Self-sufficiency; we are apt to think highly to our selves. We all hold of Adam in Capite; we are all full of Pride. As Pride was the Fall of Adam, so it would be the ruin of us.
My Brethren; wee are all of us naturally, full of our selves, full of our selves, full of the self of Pride, full of the self of Love, Self-love, full of Self-conceits, full of Self-sufficiency; wee are apt to think highly to our selves. Wee all hold of Adam in Capite; wee are all full of Pride. As Pride was the Fall of Adam, so it would bee the ruine of us.