The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

This you see in the Prodigal: in the Woman with the Bloody Issue. It was Misery brought them home. Men must be cut off their own stock, before they can be ingrafted upon another. Thrown off their own bottom, before they can cast themselves on Christ, the true Foundation.

This you see in the Prodigal: in the Woman with the Bloody Issue. It was Misery brought them home. Men must bee cut off their own stock, before they can bee ingrafted upon another. Thrown off their own bottom, before they can cast themselves on Christ, the true Foundation.

The Terms of Mercy are too hard; the Yoke of Christ is too strait for such men, who were never humbled. What! To deny themselves! to cut off their right hand! to forsake their beloved sins! But Mercy upon any Terms to the humbled is desirable. No Potion can be too bitter for the Recovery of a dying man: No hard hold too sharp for a drowning man, to take hold of. So no Terms too hard for an humbled sinner.

The Termes of Mercy are too hard; the Yoke of Christ is too strait for such men, who were never humbled. What! To deny themselves! to cut off their right hand! to forsake their beloved sins! But Mercy upon any Termes to the humbled is desireable. No Potion can bee too bitter for the Recovery of a dying man: No hard hold too sharp for a drowning man, to take hold of. So no Termes too hard for an humbled sinner.

Whereas, before a man be humbled, the Proposition of Mercy and Pardon is but all lost labour. He makes Light of Mercy, Light of Christ, Light of a Pardon, as they did, that were invited to the Supper. It's said — They made Light of it.

Whereas, before a man bee humbled, the Proposition of Mercy and Pardon is but all lost labour. Hee makes Light of Mercy, Light of Christ, Light of a Pardon, as they did, that were invited to the Supper. It's said — They made Light of it.