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A28620 The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ... Bolton, Samuel, 1606-1654. 1657 (1657) Wing B3518; ESTC R7007 442,931 486

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for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof It will abridge sin and cut it short of those dainty bits which formerly it had in the soul It will not afford it a thought a motion a look nor any thing that may fewel it or feed it It is a sin-starving-Grace But though it starve the flesh it fattens the spirit It is a soul-fatning-Grace which it doth after this manner First Preparatory way 1. Per modum removendi 1. By a Negative way By destroying Soul-consuming soul-destroying soul-pining lusts and corruptions which will hinder out spiritual fatning Men use to purge before they go to fatten Faith must give the soul a purge otherwise the soul would never thrive though the pasture bee never so good If there bee corruptions in the soul unpurged the soul will never grow and thrive If a Child do secretly feed upon Chalk or Dirt or such like trash it will never grow nor thrive though the food it eats bee never so good and wholesome meat So if the Soul do secretly feed upon some secret lust or corruption it will never grow never thrive though the food it feeds upon bee never so nourishing And therefore Faith doth purge the heart of lust and corruption which may hinder our spiritual growth Faith cuts off the suckers from the Tree which doth eat out the heart of the root and hinder the growth of the Tree Faith takes the Child from the Dugge which consumes the Parent Faith will separate a man from his lust and will not suffer a corruption to hang upon us to hinder our spiritual growth 2. Faith doth put a man into a Soul-fatning-pasture The whole Word of God is the Pasture for Faith The Word of God is objectum Adaequatum the Even and Adequate object of Faith There is the only walk of Faith which though it bee an inclosed Pasture a Field inclosed a Pasture paled in yet there is enough in it to satisfie Faith Wee shall not need to stray any whither else for want of Pasture here wee may go in and go out and finde Pasture wee shall not need to feed upon stubble and straw of humane traditions here 's enough in it to nourish us up to eternal life The Scriptures are perfect and able to make perfect the man of God to every good work 2 Tim. 3.16 17. Here is Milk for Babes and meat for stronger men Here the tallest Elephant may swim and the poorest Lamb may wade Great and small strong and weak may finde nourishment in the Scripture Parvali magni fortes infirmi habent in Scripturis undè alantur satientur Here wee may finde nourishment for our Knowledge for our love for our zeal patience humility and all our Graces They are able to make a man wise to Salvation They nourish our Obedience Would'st thou then nourish thy Knowledge Read here The Scriptures are able to make thee wise to Salvation Would'st thou nourish thy Faith Read here upon those Faith-strengthening Promises God hath made for that purpose Would'st thou nourish thy Love Oh Read here of the Love of God to thee that height depth that length and breadth of his love in Christ That love that passeth Knowledge And this will bee a burning-Glass to kindle love and affections to him This will bee as the Load-stone to draw thee Read here of the excellencies of God which may draw thy affections Would'st thou nourish thy Humility Oh Read here what thou wast by Nature Look into the Glass of the Law That will discover thy vileness lay thee in the dust Read Ezek. 16. See what a peece thou wast and then bee proud if thou canst Would'st thou nourish thy Zeal Read here of the Zeal of others which may kindle Zeal in thee Would'st thou nourish thy Patience Read here examples of Patience in Job Jeremiah and others whose long suffering will shame thy short breathed impatience Would'st thou nourish thy fear of God Why here see what is the excellency of fear c. 3. Faith feeds upon Soul-fatning-Dainties meat which the World knows not of As Christ said I have meat which you know not of So Faith hath meat which the World knows not of As the life of a Christian is an hidden life so the food of a Christian the meat of a Christian is an hidden meat an hidden Manna Faith feeds upon Soul-fatning-dainties choice food the cream of nourishment and that is 1. Upon the Promises 2. Upon Christ himself 1. Faith feeds upon Soul-fatning-Promises Indeed the whole Word of God is food for Faith both the Precept and the Promise But Faith feeds chiefly upon the Promise whereby it is inabled to walk in the Precept The whole Word of God is sincere Milk whereby wee grow and the Old and New Testament may bee called The Breasts of Consolation but the New is the better Breast More of Gods heart and love runs in the New than in the Old The Children of the Bondwoman suck at the Breast of the Old at the Law But the Children of the Free-woman suck here at this Breast the Gospel Thus Faith feeds not only upon the Word but the choice of the Word the Promises Yea and not only the Promises but the choice and freest of the Promises the Cream the spirits of Nourishment And according to the proportion of Faiths feeding hereon such is the proportion of strength and nourishment conveyed down into the Soul Hee that feeds sparingly is but a spare Christian gets but little strength Hee that eats liberally is strongly nourished The difference that wee see in Christians here some weak others strong Some Infants and Babes others Grown men some thrown down with every blast of Temptation others able to stand out all assaults The difference ariseth hence that some feed more sparingly some more liberally by Faith upon the Promises of Grace and so some are stronger than others are If you grow not 't is because you feed not you play with the Breast you suck not daily A man may have meat before him and yet dye if hee feed not The best feeder here is the best grower The Larger the appetite the stronger the Christian The more the soul doth feed upon Promise still the more strength is conveyed to the soul the more the soul is nourished 2. Faith feeds upon a Soul-fatning Christ The choicest dish that Faith doth feed upon is Christ himself Christ is food for the Soul His Flesh is meat indeed and his Blood is Drink indeed And hee who feeds upon Christ most is the most living the most growing the most fatning Christian Christ is the breeder and the feeder of spiritual life the begetter and the nourisher of life in us Hence hee is call'd The Bread of Life Not only bread to beget life in dead men but bread to nourish and increase life in living men And by Faith wee feed upon Christ Faith is the Organ whereby wee feed upon Christ and gets nourishment for it self and all its