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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.
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, Isa. 30.1.—They cover, but not with the covering of my Spirit, that they might add sin to sin; that is, the sin of their righteousness, to the sin of their unrighteousness. They cover a blot, with a blot; add sin to sin, dung to dung.
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, Isa. 30.1.—They cover, but not with the covering of my Spirit, that they might adde sin to sin; that is, the sin of their righteousness, to the sin of their unrighteousness. They cover a blot, with a blot; adde sin to sin, dung to dung.
2. Nor will the righteousness of the Law be large enough, if it were supposed that a man were able to fulfil all that righteousness, and keep the whole Law—Present obedience, though supposed to be Adequate to the Righteousness of the Law, will never answer for former offences and disobediences.