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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.
3. Nay yet further, It is not the righteousness of Angels (which ⟨p. 16⟩yet is a Greater Righteousness than that of the Law; inasmuch as the Angels were above Man in Innocency) because this also is but a created Righteousness, a finite Righteousness, and no way proportionable to the evil of sin. If it had, one sin had not spoiled those glorious Angels of their Goodness at once, and made them Devils: which that sin doing shows, There was more evil in sin, than Good or Righteousness in them.
3. Nay yet further, It is not the righteousness of Angels (which ⟨p. 16⟩yet is a Greater Righteousness than that of the Law; inasmuch as the Angels were above Man in Innocency) because this also is but a created Righteousness, a finite Righteousness, and no way proportionable to the evil of sin. If it had, one sin had not spoiled those glorious Angels of their Goodness at once, and made them Devils: which that sin doing shews, There was more evil in sin, than Good or Righteousness in them.
Well then, This shows the utter impossibility of any other under heaven, or in heaven, to Free us from the Evil of sin, but JESUS CHRIST. Nothing but Infiniteness can deal with sin. It must be Infinite wisdom—To find out a way. It must be Infinite mercy—To pardon. Infinite power—To subdue. Infinite merit—To purge and cleanse. And Infinite Grace—To destroy sin.
Well then, This shews the utter impossibility of any other under heaven, or in heaven, to Free us from the Evil of sin, but JESUS CHRIST. Nothing but Infiniteness can deal with sin. It must be Infinite wisdom—To finde out a way. It must be Infinite mercy—To pardon. Infinite power—To subdue. Infinite merit—To purge and cleanse. And Infinite Grace—To destroy sin.