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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.
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.
We use to say of such good turns, which come willingly, that we do account them double courtesies. The will doth make all Great. As the more vvill there is in sin, the Greater is the sin: And this makes The Sin against the Holy Ghost. It is done—Destinatâ Malitiâ—with devilishness and desperateness of will.
The more Will there is in Service, the more acceptable that Service is: Whatever you do for God, the more Will there is in it, the more God esteems it; where, on the contrary—Si quid boni Tristè feceris, Fit de te magis, quam à quam à te. So here, The more Will there was in this Great act of Christ, the more are we bound to Christ for it.
The more Will there is in Service, the more acceptable that Service is: Whatever you do for God, the more Will there is in it, the more God esteems it; vvhere, on the contrary—Si quid boni Tristè feceris, Fit de te magis, quam à quam à te. So here, The more Will there vvas in this Great act of Christ, the more are vve bound to Christ for it.