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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.
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.
And those whom God doth intend to be the subjects upon whom he may advance so high designs, so great purposes, must needs be exceeding precious to him.
And those whom God doth intend to bee the subjects upon whom hee may advance so high designs, so great purposes, must needs bee exceeding precious to him.
My Brethren, you that are the People of God, are such as he hath intended to advance his Mercy, and Glory of Free-Grace upon; You are they he sent Christ to dye for, the greatest work that ever was wrought in the World. You are they whom he reared the fabric of Heaven for. You are they in whom he intends to delight, and with whom he will solace himself for ever.