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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.
This should make us live at higher rates for Heaven, more spiritual, more heavenly minded. It is a Cord let down from Heaven, to fetch our souls up thither.
And doth this cause us to be more remiss, more careless? Doth this, which should quicken, slacken our hand to duty? Oh base ungrateful neglect of Love!
And doth this cause us to bee more remiss, more careless? Doth this, which should quicken, slacken our hand to duty? Oh base ungrateful neglect of Love!
3. when we take heart to sin thereby. Grow more loose, careless. This is an high abuse of this Love.
3. when wee take heart to sin thereby. Grow more loose, careless. This is an high abuse of this Love.
Because God is Good, wilt thou be Evil? because he is Merciful; wilt thou be sinful? because he is Gracious, wilt thou be impious? What fearful abuse of Love is this! This is to wound Christ in the house of his friends.