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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.
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, Rom. 4. ult. Who was delivered for our offences, and rose again for our justification. Are we not Justified by his blood? Yea, we are; and therefore he did not rise formally, to justify us; but to declare, that we were justified, that we were acquitted, that our sins were pardoned.
2. But yet more, How are you bound to Christ, who hath So Born sin, as we shall not bear it: So paid tht 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, Rom. 4. ult. Who was delivered for our offences, and rose again for our justification. Are we not Justified by his blood? Yea, we are; and therefore he did not rise formally, to justifie us; but to declare, that we were justified, that we were acquitted, that our sins were pardoned.
Had Christ been still in Prison, under the chains of death, we could not have had any Assurance that our debt had been discharged: As the Apostle saith elsewhere—If Christ be not risen, we are yet in our sins. But now Christ being Arrested, cast into Prison, laid in the Grave, and having Broken the bands of Death, in which it was not possible for him to be held; Having Risen again; By this is declared, That our sins are discharged.