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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.
There are two things which make Christ precious to a man.
1. The Knowledge of Christ. 2. The Apprehension of our Interest in him.
1. The Knowledge of Christ, and that 1. Of the Want of Christ. 2. Of the Worth of Christ.
1. The Want of Christ. When the soul apprehends the Necessity of Christ, in respect of Pardon, Purging, Grace, Glory. When the soul sees he is under the guilt of sin, and stands in need of Christ for Justification: He is under the filth of sin, and stands in need of Christ for Sanctification. He is under the power of sin, and stands in need of Christ, for the subduing and mortification of sin. His person and performances are unclean and filthy, and stands in need of Christ, to wash and sprinkle him: This makes Christ precious; sets a rate upon Christ.
1. The Want of Christ. When the soul apprehends the Necessity of Christ, in respect of Pardon, Purging, Grace, Glory. When the soul sees hee is under the guilt of sin, and stands in need of Christ for Justification: Hee is under the filth of sin, and stands in need of Christ for Sanctification. Hee is under the power of sin, and stands in need of Christ, for the subduing and mortification of sin. His person and performances are unclean and filthy, and stands in need of Christ, to wash and sprinkle him: This makes Christ precious; sets a rate upon Christ.