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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.
As we say of Faith; It doth not eligere Objectum; it doth not choose its Object; single out what it will believe, and what it will ⟨p. 150⟩not believe; but believes all, that God saith: So I may say of this prizing of Christ. True prizing of Christ doth not single out its Object. Thus much of Christ I will prize, and thus much not: But there is a full prizing of all Christ. Christ in his Holiness, Laws, Government, Truth, All.
As wee say of Faith; It doth not eligere Objectum; it doth not chuse its Object; single out what it will beleeve, and what it will ⟨p. 150⟩not beleeve; but beleeves all, that God saith: So I may say of this prizing of Christ. True prizing of Christ doth not single out its Object. Thus much of Christ I will prize, and thus much not: But there is a full prizing of all Christ. Christ in his Holiness, Lawes, Government, Truth, All.
All which are parts of Christ; and are all to be prized, if ever you would clear this, that you prize of Christ truly.
All which are parts of Christ; and are all to bee prized, if ever you would clear this, that you prize of Christ truly.
And without question, Gods people have seen so much Beauty in the Laws, Government and Holiness of Christ, that they have lost all, rather than they would lose their Obedience. And it was said of Christ. Vitam perdidit, ne Obedientiam perderet: He lost his Life, rather than he would lose his Obedience: so may it be said of them, They have taken up naked Obedience with the loss of all. They have seen so much beauty in a Truth, that they have hazarded and lost all, rather than they would lose a Truth. They have made this brave adventure, to lose themselves, to save a Truth; as you see in Queen Mary's days, in point of Transubstantiation.