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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.
Sin is the Practical-blasphemy of all the name of God. It is the Dare of his Justice, the Rape of his Mercy, the Jeer of his Patience, the Slight of his Power, the Contempt of his Love: It is every way contrary to God.
3. It is contrary to the will of God. God bids us—Do this; 1Sin saith—I will not do it—Sanctify my Sabbath—I will not sanctify it. Here is Contradiction: And! who can endure Contradiction?
3. It is contrary to the will of God. God bids us—Do this; 1Sin saith—I will not do it—Sanctifie my Sabbath—I will not sanctifie it. Here is Contradiction: And! who can endure Contradiction?
- 13 Sin contrary to the will of God.
It is set down as a great piece of Christs sufferings, Heb. 12.3. —That he endured the contradiction of sinners against himself: certainly it was a great suffering. How can a Wiseman endure to be contradicted by a fool? And here, that Christ, who was The Wisdom of the Father, should bear with such contradiction from fools; here was a great piece of Suffering.
It is set down as a great piece of Christs sufferings, Heb. 12.3. —That he indured the contradiction of sinners against himself: certainly it was a great suffering. How can a Wiseman indure to be contradicted by a fool? And here, that Christ, who was The Wisdom of the Father, should bear with such contradiction from fools; here vvas a great piece of Suffering.