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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.
God did covenant and bargain with Christ, that if he would ⟨p. 55⟩lay down his life and blood for a people, he should have them: which you see in Psal. 2.8. Ask of me, and I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance, that is, saith one, merit of me, lay down thy life and blood, and thou shalt have a people: as you see in Isa. 53.11, 12. He shall see of the travel of his soul.
God did covenant and bargain with Christ, that if hee would ⟨p. 55⟩lay down his life and bloud for a people, hee should have them: which you see in Psal. 2.8. Ask of mee, and I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance, that is, saith one, merit of mee, lay down thy life and bloud, and thou shalt have a people: as you see in Isa. 53.11, 12. Hee shall see of the travel of his soul.
That if he would dye, we should live: if he would bear the curse, we should have the blessing. If he would bear that wrath our sins deserved, and interpose himself between the Justice of God and us, the quarrel should be taken up; God would be at peace. If he would purchase us, he should enjoy us. And Christ he undertook this. He loved us; and seeing he could not have us, except he did buy us; and could not buy us, except he gave his blood for us, and as it were sell himself to the justice of God, that he might buy us out: He was content to do it. He redeemed us, not with silver or gold, &c. And now being purchased by him, his by Purchase, and so dear a Purchase; his heart must needs be taken with us. Indeed he bought us, because he loved us: and now he loves us, because he hath bought us. If we did lay down our blood, our life for the purchase of a thing, and could after live to enjoy it, how exceedingly would our hearts delight in it! Christ hath given his blood, and laid down his life for the purchase of his Church and People; and he lives to enjoy his purchase; and therefore the Heart of Christ must needs be taken with it.