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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.
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, Hos. 11.8.
Were you his enemies, hee knew how to deal with you; hee 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 hee goes about to punish you. Oh Ephraim! How shall I give thee up! how shall I deliver thee, Israel! my bowels are turned within mee. My repentings are kindled together, Hos. 11.8.
The greatness of God prevails with wicked men; that awes them often, that they dare not sin against him. But the goodness of God; this should prevail with us, There is mercy with thee; therefore thou art to be feared,
The greatness of God prevails with wicked men; that awes them often, that they dare not sin against him. But the goodness of God; this should prevail with us, There is mercy with thee; therefore thou art to bee feared,
It is set down as the Principle in such, with whom the heart ⟨p. 90⟩of Christ is taken, Hos. 3. ult. They shall fear the Lord, and his goodness, in the latter days.