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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.
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.
2. The Knowledge of the Worth of Christ. It is not the worth of things, that makes things precious to us: but our Knowledge of the worth of them.
What is it that doth commend the Jewel to the Lapidary: but his knowledge of the worth of it. By others, that know it not, it is not valued nor esteemed. So that which doth commend Christ, the worth and preciousness of Christ to the soul, it is this, our Knowledge of the Worth of Christ. By others, who know him not, he is a disallowed stone, not worth the owning, 1 Pet. 2.8.