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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.
Though indeed, this were enough, to tell you, that sin is the Greatest Evil: Thence would necessarily follow, That it is the Greatest Mercy in the world, To be rid of sin; which will more fully appear, if we consider the following particulars:
1. First then, The pardon of sin is the dearest-bought Mercy; and that is something to show the Greatness of the Mercy.
1. First then, The pardon of sin is the dearest-bought Mercy; and that is something to shew the Greatness of the Mercy.
You know, the Greater the sum is, that is to be paid for the Purchase of a thing (provided there be no want of wisdom in the Buyer, nor want of Honesty in the Seller) the Greater still, and of more worth is the Thing bought or Purchased.
But now This Mercy, Pardon of sin, was a Mercy dear-bought: It cost Blood, Mat. 26.28. and that—Not the blood of Bulls and ⟨p. 32⟩