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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.
Now if you look upon it, from the Beginning to the End, you shall find nothing but Mere Love, mere good-will in it.
Now if you look upon it, from the Beginning to the End, you shall finde nothing but Meer Love, meer good-will in it.
His first undertaking of it was Voluntary. It was a Voluntary Agreement betwixt God and Christ: A willing Contract made in heaven with God, That he would undertake this great work.
And, he came into the world with as much Willingness, Heb. 10.5, 6, 7—Wherefore, when he comes into the world, he saith—Sacrifice and Offerings thou wouldst not have. In burnt-offerings, and sacrifices for sin thou hast no pleasure—Then said I,—Lo, I come to do thy will, O God—Setting forth the Freeness and Willingness of Christ to undertake this work.
And hence the Angels sung at his Incarnation—Good will to Men. It was nothing but mere Good will.