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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.
But now this Mercy is an irrevocable Mercy: A mercy that God never recalls; A Mercy, God never repents of—The gifts and graces of God are without repentance—And it is a Mercy never forfeited.
But now this Mercy is an irrevocable Mercy: A mercy that God never recals; A Mercy, God never repents of—The gifts and graces of God are without repentance—And it is a Mercy never forfeited.
We may forfeit the sense of a pardon, we may forfeit the comfort of a pardon; nay, we may forfeit the knowledge of a pardon. I say, you may sin away the sense, the comfort, the knowledge of a pardon: as it was with David.
But we shall never forfeit a pardon—Quod Scripsi, Scripsi. If all this foreseen could not hinder God from giving out a pardon; neither can it make God repent of a pardon, when he hath given it.
Now the Stability of the Mercy is that, which adds a great deal of worth to the Mercy. As things that are Evil; so much more things that are good, are heightened from the consideration of the continuance of them, the Stability and Lastingness of them.