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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.
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.
There was no Want of Wisdom in the Buyer; he could not be over-reached, he knew the worth of the Commodity: Nor was there want of justice or goodness in the Seller. He was just, and would not take one drop of blood more than the thing was worth: And he was A Father too, and therefore would not put his Son to more sufferings, and require more than the thing was worth.
There was no Want of Wisdom in the Buyer; he could not be over-reacht, he knew the worth of the Commodity: Nor was there want of justice or goodness in the Seller. He was just, and would not take one drop of blood more than the thing was worth: And he was A Father too, and therefore would not put his Son to more sufferings, and require more than the thing was worth.
2. This is the purest Mercy of all other, The Pardon of sin, A mercy that comes from the Heart and Good-will of God to you.
God may give you all other things, and hate you. You may be Rich, and yet Reprobates; Great in the world here, and be Damned hereafter. Dives may have wealth, Herod Eloquence, Saul Command, Agrippa Glorious Apparel: a man may do wickedly, and yet prosper. These things are not Truly good, nor Truly evil. If good, the wicked should not have them: If evil, the Saints should not have them. These are such things as God reacheth from his Hand, not from his Heart: they are general favours, not special Love.