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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.
That the state of nature is not only a state of misery, but a state of impotency, and utter disability to do any thing to help it self. Hence the Apostle saith, Rom. 5.6, 8. — That we were not only sinners, but — without strength; not able to help our selves out of this condition of sin. — We were dead in trespasses and sins. So that we were unable to do; or (if any thing) yet dead works, such as set us further in debt, but wipe off no score. Hence Christ saith — Without me ye can do nothing. All our actions are so many Cyphers, so many Nothings.
That the state of nature is not only a state of misery, but a state of impotency, and utter disability to do any thing to help it self. Hence the Apostle saith, Rom. 5.6, 8. — That wee were not only sinners, but — without strength; not able to help our selves out of this condition of sin. — Wee were dead in trespasses and sins. So that wee were unable to do; or (if any thing) yet dead works, such as set us further in debt, but wipe off no score. Hence Christ saith — Without mee yee can do nothing. All our actions are so many Cyphers, so many Nothings.
1. We can do nothing to please God: our best works, but [Greek or Hebrew]: The Gift of an Enemy: The Sacrifice of Fools. — They, that are in the flesh, cannot please God.
1. Wee can do nothing to please God: our best works, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: The Gift of an Enemy: The Sacrifice of Fools. — They, that are in the flesh, cannot please God.