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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.
An humble empty heart is the vessel of all Grace. So much Emptiness, so much Grace: Because humility doth empty the heart for God to fill it. If the heart be emptied once, it must needs be filled.1 Nature abhors emptiness, Grace much more.
An humble empty heart is the vessel of all Grace. So much Emptiness, so much Grace: Because humility doth empty the heart for God to fill it. If the heart bee emptied once, it must needs bee filled.1 Nature abhors emptiness, Grace much more.
- 1Non datur vacuum.
Faith doth enrich the soul with all the merits of Christ, with the Spirit of Christ, Christ imputed, Christ imparted, Christ infused: with the Righteousness of Christ for Justification: with the Holiness of Christ for Sanctification. Faith will not want it, if Christ have it: Faith will not be poor, if Christ be rich, will not be empty, if Christ be full.1— I cannot be poor (saith Bernard) so long as God is rich: his Riches are mine: Of his fullness I receive Grace for Grace.
Faith doth inrich the soul with all the merits of Christ, with the Spirit of Christ, Christ imputed, Christ imparted, Christ infused: with the Righteousness of Christ for Justification: with the Holiness of Christ for Sanctification. Faith will not want it, if Christ have it: Faith will not bee poor, if Christ bee rich, will not bee empty, if Christ bee full.1— I cannot bee poor (saith Bernard) so long as God is rich: his Riches are mine: Of his fulness I receive Grace for Grace.