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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.
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.
Because God is Good, wilt thou bee Evil? because hee is Merciful; wilt thou bee sinful? because hee is Gracious, wilt thou bee impious? What fearful abuse of Love is this! This is to wound Christ in the house of his friends.
To return good for good, is but Humane. To return evil for good, is Wicked. To return good for evil, is Christian-like. But To return evil for good, and the greatest evil for the greatest good, Sin for Love; this is devilish.
Were you his enemies, he knew how to deal with you; he could revenge himself, and the abuses of his love upon you: but you are his friends, and those bowels which you wrong, are stirred in him, when he goes about to punish you. Oh Ephraim! How shall I give thee up! how shall I deliver thee, Israel! my bowels are turned within me. My repentings are kindled together,