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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.
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.
2. When the Love of Christ doth slacken our hearts to duty, loosen our ingagements, makes us more remiss to or in service. This is to abuse his Love.
We should reason from Mercy to Duty; and not from Mercy to Liberty. Abundance of Grace calls in for abundance of Duty.
Wee should reason from Mercy to Duty; and not from Mercy to Liberty. Abundance of Grace calls in for abundance of Duty.