A28620:1879
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.
So that you see, Faith is a Soul-enriching-Grace. It gives a man not only Title, and interest into a Soul-enriching-God, a Soul-enriching-Christ, a Soul-enriching-Treasure: but gives the soul the possession and enjoyment of all this. By Faith we possess God; enjoy God, and by no other way, but by Faith in Christ.
So that you see, Faith is a Soul-inriching-Grace. It gives a man not only Title, and interest into a Soul-inriching-God, a Soul-inriching-Christ, a Soul-inriching-Treasure: but gives the soul the possession and injoymnet of all this. By Faith wee possess God; injoy God, and by no other way, but by Faith in Christ.
Though Faith be poor in it self, the poorest Grace of all, as having nothing of its own; such a Grace as lives all upon another's stock, is fed with another's food; rich by another's riches; as the Apostle said of himself — He was poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, yet possessing all things: so I may say of Faith. Though it be poor in it self, yet it makes us rich, doth enrich us with all the riches of Christ, though it hath nothing in it self; yet it possesses all things, it possesseth Christ, which is all.
Though Faith be poor in it self, the poorest Grace of all, as having nothing of its own; such a Grace as lives all upon anothers stock, is fed with anothers food; rich by anothers riches; as the Apostle said of himself — Hee was poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, yet possessing all things: so I may say of Faith. Though it bee poor in it self, yet it makes us rich, doth inrich us with all the riches of Christ, though it hath nothing in it self; yet it possesses all things, it possesseth Christ, which is all.
Oh! If you be rich in Faith, you cannot be poor in Grace,