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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.
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.
Though now there be mercy more than enough for the greatest sinners; as the Apostle saith, 1 Tim. 1.14. yet there was not Justice more than enough exercised upon Christ for the demerit and guilt of sin.