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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.
His Person a Mystery; his Nature; his Works; all Mysteries, 1 Tim. 3.16. — Without Controversy great is the Mystery of godliness; God manifested in the flesh; justified in the spirit; seen of Angels; preached unto the Gentiles; believed on in the World; received up into Glory. That he should be God-Man; mortal, and immortal: That there should be such greatness, and such baseness: such infiniteness, and yet such finiteness in one person. These are all Mysteries.
His Person a Mystery; his Nature; his Works; all Mysteries, 1 Tim. 3.16. — Without Controversy great is the Mystery of godliness; God manifested in the flesh; justified in the spirit; seen of Angels; preached unto the Gentiles; believed on in the World; received up into Glory. That hee should bee God-Man; mortall, and immortal: That there should bee such greatness, and such baseness: such infiniteness, and yet such finiteness in one person. These are all Mysteries.
Hence Christ is called (Isa. 9.6.) Wonderful; because all is wonderful in Christ; he is wonderful in his Person, in his Nature, in his offices, in the managing of them. A chain of wonders.
Hence Christ is called (Isa. 9.6.) Wonderful; because all is wonderfull in Christ; hee is wonderful in his Person, in his Nature, in his offices, in the managing of them. A chain of wonders.
So the Creation a Mystery, Resurrection a Mystery. Christian Religion is nothing else but a bundle of holy Mysteries.