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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.
9. Sign. A heart taken with Christ is fully content and satisfied with the enjoyments and possession of Christ.
9. Sign. A heart taken with Christ is fully content and satisfied with the injoyments and possession of Christ.
The possession of the thing beloved doth content the soul so far as there is satisfaction and contentment with it. The reason why we do not meet with full contentments and satisfactions here in the possession or our loves, is because they want of fullness.
The possession of the thing beloved doth content the soul so far as there is satisfaction and contentment with it. The reason why wee do not meet with full contentments and satisfactions here in the possession or our loves, is because they want of fulness.
But now it is not so with Christ. He is able to brim the soul, to satisfy the spirit to answer all the desires of the heart; and therefore the heart taken with him, needs must rest satisfied and contented with him.
But now it is not so with Christ. Hee is able to brim the soul, to satisfie the spirit to answer all the desires of the heart; and therefore the heart taken with him, needs must rest satisfied and contented with him.