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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.
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.
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, hee is a disallowed stone, not worth the owning, 1 Pet. 2.8.
2. The second thing which doth commend Christ to a soul, is The Apprehension of the souls Interest in him. When the soul can look upon Christ, as his own, then he esteems him; when he knows he hath a Propriety in Christ, a part in Christ.
2. The second thing which doth commend Christ to a soul, is The Apprehension of the souls Interest in him. When the soul can look upon Christ, as his own, then hee esteems him; when hee knows hee hath a Propriety in Christ, a part in Christ.