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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, when the hour came, though it was a Black and Dismal-hour, called, The hour of Darkness; yet he would not desert us, he would not leave us. If he had, He had left us in Hell, without all recovery. But he would go through with it, though it made him (so far as he was man) to strange at the work of his own mercy. Nay, He would bear sin, and bear wrath, and would lay down the utmost drop of blood in his body.
Oh! Oh! Think with your selves, you, that are The People of God, How much you are bound to Christ.
How may we say, with Bernard—Tu Vita mea: Ego mors tua. Tu Justitia mea: Ego Peccatum tuum. Tu coelum meum: Ego Gehenna tua. Tu Divitiae meae: Ego Paupertas tua—Thou art my Life, am thy Death. Thou my Righteousness, I thy Sin. Thou my Heaven, I thy Hell. Thou my Riches, I thy Poverty. Oh! how are you bound to Christ, who hath born sin!
2. But yet more, How are you bound to Christ, who hath So Born sin, as we shall not bear it: So paid that Debt, as we are discharged? Col 2.14.—Blotting out the Hand-writing of Ordinances, that was against us, and contrary to us, taking it away, and nailing it to his Cross. As the Death of Christ was our payment, so the Resurrection of Christ is our discharge,