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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. Knows and sees the worth of Christ. He sees those excellencies and beauties in him, which to others lye hid, and are not discovered. To others he is an Orient Pearl in an heap of Sand: a Mine of Gold covered over with rubbish and earth. They are not able to behold his beauties.
2. Knows and sees the worth of Christ. Hee sees those excellencies and beauties in him, which to others lye hid, and are not discovered. To others hee is an Orient Pearl in an heap of Sand: a Mine of Gold covered over with rubbish and earth. They are not able to behold his beauties.
2. He sees and apprehends his own interest in him. And this makes the soul to prize him. He can say, Christ is mine. His Righteousness mine, to justify me: His Holiness mine, to Sanctify me: His Sufferings mine, to save me. And upon this there ariseth an high prizing of Christ.
2. Hee sees and apprehends his own interest in him. And this makes the soul to prize him. Hee can say, Christ is mine. His Righteousness mine, to justifie mee: His Holiness mine, to Sanctifie mee: His Sufferings mine, to save mee. And upon this there ariseth an high prizing of Christ.
Quest. But you will say. Doth not every man prize Christ? who doth not value and esteem of Christ?