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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.
And therefore God singled out a few upon whom he would ⟨p. 59⟩advance the riches of his Grace, that his Mercy, and in that himself might be made known in the World.
And therefore God singled out a few upon whom hee would ⟨p. 59⟩advance the riches of his Grace, that his Mercy, and in that himself might bee made known in the World.
As Paul saith of himself, 1 Tim. 1.16. that he obtained Mercy, that he might stand up a Pattern of all long-suffering. As if he had said. We should not have known how patient God is, we should not have apprehended how long-suffering God is to sinners, if he had not had such an example of patience, such a pattern of all long-suffering, as I was: So we should not have known how Merciful, how Good God is, if the choicest attribute of God had been lost to us; like as if a great River had run under ground not discerned; if God had not singled out some, upon whom he might have expressed the Riches of his Mercy.
As Paul saith of himself, 1 Tim. 1.16. that hee obtained Mercy, that hee might stand up a Pattern of all long-suffering. As if hee had said. Wee should not have known how patient God is, wee should not have apprehended how long-suffering God is to sinners, if hee had not had such an example of patience, such a pattern of all long-suffering, as I was: So wee should not have known how Mercifull, how Good God is, if the choicest attribute of God had been lost to us; like as if a great River had run under ground not discerned; if God had not singled out some, upon whom hee might have expressed the Riches of his Mercy.