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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. A second beauty wherewith Christ adorns his Church, and makes her lovely, is, The Beauties of his Graces; which may be called the Beauties of Holiness, and set forth to us by those Bracelets, and chains, Ezek. 16.9. and here by one Chain, &c. which is communicated to us, by way of Infusion, or Emanation, whereby Christ by his Spirit, doth derive from himself as the universal Principle, and common stock of Grace; Grace for Grace, according to that, Joh. 1.16. Of his fullness we have all received Grace for Grace.
2. A second beauty wherewith Christ adorns his Church, and makes her lovely, is, The Beauties of his Graces; which may bee called the Beauties of Holiness, and set forth to us by those Bracelets, and chains, Ezek. 16.9. and here by one Chain, &c. which is communicated to us, by way of Infusion, or Emanation, whereby Christ by his Spirit, doth derive from himself as the universal Principle, and common stock of Grace; Grace for Grace, according to that, Joh. 1.16. Of his fulness wee have all received Grace for Grace.
I know there are many interpretations of this. Chrysostom. The Gospel for the Law, because it follows, The Law came by Moses.
I know there are many interpretations of this. Chrysostome. The Gospel for the Law, because it follows, The Law came by Moses.
Others, Gratiam, super Gratiam, or Gratiam gratiae accumulatam, one grace to another, or abundance of Grace.