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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.
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.
2. We are his By Purchase. He hath bought us, and that at a dear rate, with the price of his own blood, Gal. 4.5. Christ was made under the Law, that he might buy out those, who were under the Law. Hence, 1 Cor. 6.20. You are bought with a price. And what was the price? It could not be too little for the meanness of the commodity, not worth owning when he had it. But it cost him his dearest Hearts-blood; as 1 Pet. 1.18. We were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb, without blemish, without spot. So then we are his by Purchase; we are the fruits of all his pains; of all his doings and sufferings; we are the comings in which Christ had for his Blood; we are his Purchase.
2. Wee are his By Purchase. Hee hath bought us, and that at a dear rate, with the price of his own blood, Gal. 4.5. Christ was made under the Law, that hee might buy out those, who were under the Law. Hence, 1 Cor. 6.20. You are bought with a price. And what was the price? It could not bee too little for the meanness of the commodity, not worth owning when hee had it. But it cost him his dearest Hearts-blood; as 1 Pet. 1.18. Wee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a Lamb, without blemish, without spot. So then wee are his by Purchase; wee are the fruits of all his pains; of all his doings and sufferings; wee are the commings in which Christ had for his Bloud; wee are his Purchase.
God did covenant and bargain with Christ, that if he would