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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.
A TREATISE OF THE LOVES OF CHRIST TO HIS SPOUSE. › Consectary 5: 5. Consectary.
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. He did sanctify us. Our holiness is not wrought out of our own Principles; spun out of own bowels; compassed by our own strength and industry: but freely imparted and given of God.
3. Hee did sanctifie us. Our holiness is not wrought out of our own Principles; spun out of own bowels; compast by our own strength and industry: but freely imparted and given of God.
As our Righteousness is freely imputed: so our Holiness is freely imparted.
That thou art not a killing Cain, a self murdering Saul, a despairing Judas, a profane Esau, a drunken Baltazar, a filthy Sodomite, it ariseth from this, mere Mercy.
That thou art not a killing Cain, a self murdering Saul, a despairing Judas, a prophane Esau, a drunken Baltazar, a filthy Sodomite, it ariseth from this, meer Mercy.
But that God hath not only restrained thee; but renewed thee; not only chained up thy spirit, but changed thy spirit: This is Free-Mercy. And so the Scripture tells us,