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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.
1. Faith sets a man upon a Soul-establishing-bottom, upon a sure Foundation, upon Christ: and he is sure who is built there: as the house on the Rock; so the soul on Christ is safe. Time was, a man was his own Foundation, but it was a sandy one: but now his Foundation is Christ, a Rock of ages.
1. Faith sets a man upon a Soul-establishing-bottome, upon a sure Foundation, upon Christ: and hee is sure who is built there: as the house on the Rock; so the soul on Christ is safe. Time was, a man was his own Foundation, but it was a sandy one: but now his Foundation is Christ, a Rock of ages.
2. Faith doth interest a man in a Soul-establishing-Covenant: not a Covenant of Works, but of Grace, Jer. 32.40. — I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, that I will never turn from them to do them good: But I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me, Isa. 54.9, 10. — This is as the Waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn, that the Waters of Noah shall no more go over the Earth: so have I sworn that I will not be angry with thee, nor rebuke thee.
2. Faith doth interest a man in a Soul-establishing-Covenant: not a Covenant of Works, but of Grace, Jer. 32.40. — I will make an everlasting Covenant with them, that I will never turn from them to do them good: But I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from mee, Isa. 54.9, 10. — This is as the Waters of Noah unto mee; for as I have sworn, that the Waters of Noah shall no more go over the Earth: so have I sworn that I will not bee angry with thee, nor rebuke thee.