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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. › Use of Exhortation.
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.
1. When we slight the entreaties, reject the tenders, cast aside the offers and beseeches of his Love.
1. When wee slight the intreaties, reject the tenders, cast aside the offers and beseeches of his Love.
When love stoops to you, when the mercy and goodness of Christ doth as it were, come on its knees to you, and entreats you to do this, or not to do that.
When love stoops to you, when the mercy and goodness of Christ doth as it were, come on its knees to you, and intreats you to do this, or not to do that.
And yet you will stop your ears, pull back your shoulder, slight the entreaties. This is an abuse.
And yet you will stop your ears, pull back your shoulder, slight the intreaties. This is an abuse.
2. When the Love of Christ doth slacken our hearts to duty, loosen our engagements, makes us more remiss to or in service. This is to abuse his Love.