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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.
And therefore you shall see it set down as the only mercy that comes in by Christ, Mat. 1.25—He shall be called JESUS, because he shall save his people from their sins.
As if all other things coming in by Christ, were included in this one, He shall save his people from their sins. He doth not say— He shall save his people from Hell, &c, but, From sin: From no other evil in the world. And this is the Greatest Mercy.
As if all other things coming in by Christ, were included in this one, He shall save his people from their sins. He doth not say— Hee shall save his people from Hell, &c, but, From sin: From no other evil in the world. And this is the Greatest Mercy.
When God would speak the utmost, even the greatest thought of Mercy, that ever came upon his heart; when he would set down the greatest work of Mercy, that ever the God of Mercy wrought: he saith no more, but, He shall save his people from their sins.
Sin was the utmost Evil; and therefore the saving from sin was the greatest good. And hence David, Psal 32.1, 2. saith—Blessed is he whose iniquity is forgiven, and whose sin is covered: Blessed is that man, to whom the Lord imputeth not sin.