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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.
SIN THE GREATEST EVIL▪ › USE.SINNE THE GREATEST EVIL▪ › USE.
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.
You can aggravate no sin so high, as to raise it above it self as to make sin greater than it is. You can have No Magnifying Glass, to greaten sin above the Greatness of it. You have such Glasses: to make greater other things above their own highness; which are able to present small things great; mean things, of vast bigness: But you have no Glass to multiply sin, and make sin appear Bigger than it is.
You can aggravate no sin so high, as to raise it above it selfe as to make sin greater than it is. You can have No Magnifying Glass, to greaten sin above the Greatness of it. You have such Glasses: to make greater other things above their own higness; which are able to present small things great; mean things, of vast bigness: But you have no Glass to multiply sin, and make sin appear Bigger than it is.
The sufferings of the Saints, the sorrows of the Saints; the ⟨p. 30⟩sufferings of the Damned are too short; The Glass of the Law, the Glass of Christs sufferings (which is the greatest) this doth not show sin greater than it is: It doth but discover sin in its Just Proportions and Dimensions.
The sufferings of the Saints, the sorrows of the Saints; the ⟨p. 30⟩sufferings of the Damned are too short; The Glass ot the Law, the Glass of Christs sufferings (which is the greatest) this doth not shew sin greater than it is: It doth but discover sin in its Just Proportions and Dimensions.
It had not been justice in God, to have required more blood, and to put his own Son to more suffering, than sin deserved. Nor would this have stood with Gods Love, his Pity and Mercy to his Son, to have put him to more than sin deserved.