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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 there remains nothing for us to do, in point of justification, but, To sue out all that that Christ hath purchased.
We live in the world, as if we were to purchase a pardon, when we are only to receive a pardon.
We live in the vvorld, as if vve vvere to purchase a pardon, vvhen vve are onely to receive a pardon.
God arresteth us for the Debt of sin; But do you think it is, that we should pay it? alas poor creatures! No, it is but to drive us out of our selves, and to bring us over unto Christ, who hath already paid the debt.
And, Oh! how should this make us advance Christ, admire Christ, prize Christ! What should endear our hearts more to Christ, than this, That he hath born our sins, and so born them, as we shall never hear them? if we have an interest in him.
And, Oh! hovv should this make us advance Christ, admire Christ, prize Christ! What should indear our hearts more to Christ, than this, That he hath born our sins, and so born them, as we shall never hear them? if vve have an interest in him.