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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.
Which made the Fathers of the Greek Church say, [Greek or Hebrew], &c. By virtue of thy unknown labours, and those sufferings not revealed to man, Have mercy on us.
Which made the Fathers of the Greek Church say, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c. By vertue of thy unknown labors, and those sufferings not revealed to man, Have mercy on us.
It is no dishonour to Christ, to say, That whatever the sufferings of the Damned were In Ponder, Christ endured; though not In Specie, for the kind.
It is no dishonor to Christ, to say, That whatever the sufferings of the Damned were In Pondere, Christ indured; though not In Specie, for the kinde.
And therefore let me say again, How much are you bound to Christ, who hath born your sins for you! And the more bound, because it was a Voluntary act of Christ: none could enforce or constrain him to it. Now the more willingly a Courtesy is done, the better it is. This doth enhance and heighten a courtesy, when it is done Willingly.
And therefore let me say again, How much are you bound to Christ, who hath born your sins for you! And the more bound, because it was a Voluntary act of Christ: none could inforce or constrain him to it. Now the more willingly a Courtesie is done, the better it is. This doth inhance and heighten a courtesie, when it is done Willingly.