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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 this is a Stable Mercy. Take but one Place, Isa. 54.8, 9, 10—For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: For, as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth: So have I sworn, that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. —Yet further—For the mountains shall depart, and the hills shall be removed: but my kindness shall never depart from thee, nor shall the Covenant of my peace be removed.
Now this is a Stable Mercy. Take but one Place, Isa. 54.8, 9, 10—For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: For, as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth: So have I sworn, that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. —Yet further—For the mountains shall depart, and the hills shall be removed: but my kindeness shall never depart from thee, nor shall the Covenant of my peace be removed.
This is the difference betwixt the Covenant of Works, and the Covenant of Grace. The one, is Temporary; the other, is Eternal. It is a Temporary Covenant, though an Eternal Rule: The other is Eternal, and Immutable.
6. Pardon of sin is an Universal Mercy, the Womb of Mercy, a Productive-Mercy; all other mercies grow upon this Tree of Forgiveness of sin. It is a Tree, the Root whereof is in Christ; and the Fruit thereof are All good things on Earth, and Glory in Heaven. There are Seven glorious Fruits of Pardon of sin; which I will but name, and so come to the Last Use.