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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.
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.
1. Reconciliation with God, 2 Cor. 5.19. Admission into his favour. He, who before was an Enemy, is now become thy Friend; for nothing makes God an Enemy, but sin. And such a Friend he is, who will be a Friend in life, a friend in Death, when all other Friends forsake; and a Friend after death.
2. Adoption of Children: which followeth upon our pardon in justification.
3. Access to God, as to a Father, with child-like boldness. Sin was that [Greek or Hebrew]—that great Gulf betwixt God and us. Sin the Partition-wall betwixt God and us: now sin being pardoned, this Partition-wall is taken down, and there is Access to God, and Access with boldness.