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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.
Well, now Christ hath done this; and having done it, he hath given all his fathers bills & bonds into our hands; & withal, a letter of attorney, whereby we are enabled to call for all this, at the hands of God.
Wel, now Christ hath done this; and having done it, he hath given all his fathers bills & bonds into our hands; & withal, a letter of attorney, whereby we are inabled to call for all this, at the hands of God.
It was for us, that Christ undertook the work; and all that Christ did, it was to engage God to us: first to satisfy him, and then to engage him; to make God our debtor, who were once his debtors. And, as long as there is any of the Blood of Christ to give out (which will never be spent, it is an everlasting righteousness) so long is the mercy of God, nay; the justice of God engaged, to bestow it on us, who by faith come over to him.
It was for us, that Christ undertook the work; and all that Christ did, it was to ingage God to us: first to satisfie him, and then to ingage him; to make God our debtor, vvho vvere once his debtors. And, as long as there is any of the Blood of Christ to give out (which will never be spent, it is an everlasting righteousness) so long is the mercy of God, nay; the justice of God ingaged, to bestow it on us, vvho by faith come over to him.
And there remains nothing for us to do, in point of justification, but, To sue out all that that Christ hath purchased.