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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.
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.
Now sin is a contradiction of God: Sets Will, against Wisdom; and the Hell of a wicked Will, against an Heaven of Infinite Wisdom, And that God should bear with such sinners; here is a Wonder.
Now sin is a contradiction of God: Sets Will, against Wisdom; and the Hell of a wicked Will, against an Heaven of Infinite Wisdom, And that God should bear vvith such sinners; here is a Wonder.
You know in all the Creatures, Contrariety makes all the Combustion: It makes all the War in nature, it causeth one Element to fight against another: Fire against Water, Water against Fire: It will make very Stones to sweat, and burst asunder.
You knovv in all the Creatures, Contrariety makes all the Combustion: It makes all the War in nature, it causeth one Element to fight against another: Fire against Water, Water against Fire: It will make very Stones to sweat, and burst asunder.