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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 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⟩Goats; for that it was impossible it should take away sins, as the Apostle hath it, Heb. 10.4. What then was it? Why it was The Precious blood of Christ, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19.—You were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation; but with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and spot. And this, The Blood of God; Acts 20.28.— Feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own Blood.
Now sit down, and think what a Mercy that must needs be, which is the Price of blood, and that of the Son of God.