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Name: The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657

[34], 420 [i.e. 455], [2] p. : port. · 221k words · Wing B3518 · ESTC R7007

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A TREATISE OF THE NATURE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 18 › Use of Examination.A TREATISE OF THE NATƲRE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 18 › Use of Examination.

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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.

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2. God doth discover to the soul the fullness and all-sufficiency of Christ.— Who is able to save to the uttermost, them that come to God by him; and Heb. 7.25. That there's enough in him to justify and save so vile a sinner, as thou hast been. Christ his Righteousness is an everlasting Righteousness; such as an eternity of sinning is never able to expend and draw dry.

2. God doth discover to the soul the fulness and al-sufficiency of Christ.— Who is able to save to the uttermost, them that come to God by him; and Heb. 7.25. That there's enough in him to justifie and save so vile a sinner, as thou hast been. Christ his Righteousness is an everlasting Righteousness; such as an eternity of sinning is never able to expend and draw dry.

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As our Faith can never out-grow the Righteousness of Christ, so neither can our sins,

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