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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.
And a Death it is, not only Privative, A mere absence and privation of spiritual life; but a Positive Death, wherein there is an Introduction of a Positive vicious Habit. As in Natural Death, there is not only a Privation of Life, of the former form: but the Position of another form: there is another form left in the body. So in Spiritual Death, there is not only a mere Absence, a bare Privation of Life: But there is a Positive Evil, and Vicious Habit left in the soul. Hence, Heb. 9.14. The works of natural men are called — Dead works. There would be a contradiction in calling them Dead works, if unregenerate men were only deprived of spiritual life, and had not another positive evil form in them.
And a Death it is, not only Privative, A meer absence and privation of spiritual life; but a Positive Death, wherein there is an Introduction of a Positive vitious Habit. As in Natural Death, there is not only a Privation of Life, of the former form: but the Position of another form: there is another form left in the body. So in Spiritual Death, there is not only a meer Absence, a bare Privation of Life: But there is a Positive Evil, and Vitious Habit left in the soul. Hence, Heb. 9.14. The works of natural men are called — Dead works. There would bee a contradiction in calling them Dead works, if unregenerate men were only deprived of spiritual life, and had not another positive evil form in them.
Thus dead we are then, not only Privatively, but Positively.
Thus dead wee are then, not only Privatively, but Positively.
And it is Faith which doth raise up the Soul from the Death of Sin, to the Life of Grace. Faith is the Resurrection of the Soul from under the spiritual death, the Death of Sin.