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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.
The Papists indeed would have us to merit Heaven. And the Council of Trent denounce a curse upon those, who say,1 A Justified person cannot merit Heaven. But alas! What are all our deserts to this Glory! If a man should serve God, and suffer a thousand years, what were this to merit eternity in Glory?
The Papists indeed would have us to merit Heaven. And the Councel of Trent denounce a curse upon those, who say,1 A Justified person cannot merit Heaven. But alas! What are all our deserts to this Glory! If a man should serve God, and suffer a thousand years, what were this to merit eternity in Glory?
- 1Quid sunt omnia opera ad tantam gloriam! Bern. Si homo mille annis serviet.
No, here is the ground of all. His heart is taken with us, and therefore he glorifies us. And so the Scripture speaks plain, Eph. 2.5. By Grace ye are saved. And lest he should never make it firm enough, he adds, in the 8, and 9. verses, By Grace ye are saved — not of works.
No, here is the ground of all. His heart is taken with us, and therefore hee glorifies us. And so the Scripture speaks plain, Eph. 2.5. By Grace yee are saved. And lest hee should never make it firm enough, hee adds, in the 8, and 9. verses, By Grace yee are saved — not of works.