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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.
Hast thou committed but one sin? thou hast done that which all the Treasures of Righteousness in Heaven and Earth are not able to relieve thee, or help thee in, save JESUS CHRIST.
There is as much required for the answering the guilt of one sin, as the guilt of a thousand.
Infinite Righteousness is required for one, and no more is required for a thousand: And that Righteousness none but Christ alone hath.
Nothing can relieve us, but that which is Adequate in righteousness to the Evil of sin. Now there is no righteousness in the world, that is proportionable to the Evil of sin, but the Righteousness of Christ.
1. Our own, you know is too short; it is called A menstruous rag. A rag, and therefore cannot cover us-Menstruous, and therefore though it should cover us, yet it would but cover filth with filth; as the Prophet speaks,