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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. 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?
Ans. You may say, you do so. But there's no such matter. If Christ were precious in thy eyes, then
1. Thou wouldst not care what pains thou tookest for the compassing of Christ. You see a worldly man, to whom the World is precious, what pains he takes for the attaining of the things of the World,