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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.
3. We are his By Donation. God hath given us to him, Joh. 6.37. All that the Father hath given me, shall come unto me, Joh. 17.9, 11, 12. I pray not for the World, but for them whom thou hast given me. — Holy Father, keep through thy own name those whom thou hast given me.
3. Wee are his By Donation. God hath given us to him, Joh. 6.37. All that the Father hath given mee, shall come unto mee, Joh. 17.9, 11, 12. I pray not for the World, but for them whom thou hast given mee. — Holy Father, keep through thy own name those whom thou hast given mee.
We were so bought, as yet we were given: else where is Gods Mercy? and so given, as yet we were bought: else where is his Justice? Gods arms are equal; in the length of the one, you have the measure of the other: and therefore he did so express his Mercy to man, as withal he did preserve his Justice. They were so given, as yet bought; and so bought as yet given.
Wee were so bought, as yet wee were given: else where is Gods Mercy? and so given, as yet wee were bought: else where is his Justice? Gods armes are equal; in the length of the one, you have the measure of the other: and therefore hee did so express his Mercy to man, as withall hee did preserve his Justice. They were so given, as yet bought; and so bought as yet given.
And being his by Donation, God having made them over to Christ by Deed of Gift, being the full desire of Christ, hence the Heart of Christ is taken with them.