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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. The weakest Faith doth give the Soul Union with the strong Redeemer; as well as the strongest. The smallest measure of Faith, if never so little, if it bring but the soul over to Christ, it engrafts thee into him, as well as the stronger; makes thee a Member of this Body; a Branch in this Vine.
3. The weakest Faith doth give the Soul Union with the strong Redeemer; as well as the strongest. The smallest measure of Faith, if never so little, if it bring but the soul over to Christ, it ingrafts thee into him, as well as the stronger; makes thee a Member of this Body; a Branch in this Vine.
4. The weakest measure of Faith gives thee Communion with Christ, as well as the strongest.
We know the least bud draws sap from the Root as well as the greatest bough: so the weakest measure of Faith, doth as truly ingraft thee into Christ; and by that draw life from Christ, as well as the strongest. The weakest Faith hath communion with the Merits and Blood of Christ, as well as the strongest: hath communion with the Spirit of Christ, the Graces of Christ, as well as the strongest.
Wee know the least bud draws sap from the Root as well as the greatest bough: so the weakest measure of Faith, doth as truly ingraft thee into Christ; and by that draw life from Christ, as well as the strongest. The weakest Faith hath communion with the Merits and Blood of Christ, as well as the strongest: hath communion with the Spirit of Christ, the Graces of Christ, as well as the strongest.