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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. Because they are the persons, upon whom God intended to advance the great design of glorifying the Riches and Freeness of his Grace and Mercy.
Now those whom God hath intended for so great purposes, as these are, which are the greatest Purposes that ever came upon his heart, his heart must needs be taken withal. You know the more glorious and excellent the End to which any thing serves, the more precious is that thing in our eyes. Now we serve for no other End, but the expression of his Mercy, the advancement of the Glory of his Free-Grace, which are Ends as high as himself, Purposes as great as himself.
Now those whom God hath intended for so great purposes, as these are, which are the greatest Purposes that ever came upon his heart, his heart must needs bee taken withall. You know the more glorious and excellent the End to which any thing serves, the more precious is that thing in our eyes. Now wee serve for no other End, but the expression of his Mercy, the advancement of the Glory of his Free-Grace, which are Ends as high as himself, Purposes as great as himself.
And therefore God is not only taken with the expression of it, but with the persons upon whom he doth express it. Therefore I say is the Heart of God so exceedingly taken with his Church.
And therefore God is not only taken with the expression of it, but with the persons upon whom hee doth expresse it. Therefore I say is the Heart of God so exceedingly taken with his Church.