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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.
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.
Men will not seek after the Physician, before they feel themselves to be sick: for ease, till they be pressed with burdens: for a Plaster, before they be wounded: for heavenly Riches, before sense of their spiritual beggary: for enlargement, and pardon, before they be in Prison: for Mercy, before they smart under the sense of Misery: Nor for a Christ, till the soul do find a necessity in the want of Christ.
Men will not seek after the Physitian, before they feel themselves to bee sick: for ease, till they bee prest with burdens: for a Plaister, before they bee wounded: for heavenly Riches, before sense of their spiritual beggery: for inlargement, and pardon, before they bee in Prison: for Mercy, before they smart under the sense of Misery: Nor for a Christ, till the soul do finde a necessity in the want of Christ.
Hence the Law is said to be our Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. And it is upon this ground, among others; because it doth discover sin to us; and lash us, and humble us for it. And then we are ready to go from Sinai to Zion: from the Law of Moses accusing, to the Gospel of Christ excusing: from the Law condemning, to the Gospel absolving.
Hence the Law is said to bee our Schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. And it is upon this ground, among others; because it doth discover sin to us; and lash us, and humble us for it. And then wee are ready to go from Sinai to Sion: from the Law of Moses accusing, to the Gospel of Christ excusing: from the Law condemning, to the Gospel absolving.