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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.
None but venomous spirits will suck poison from such a sweet, as thence to draw encouragements to sin, from that which is the great encouragement to service.
None but venimous spirits will suck poison from such a sweet, as thence to draw incouragements to sin, from that which is the great incouragement to service.
The Love of Christ had so prevailed with Chrysostom, that he used to say, Ego sic censeo, sic assidue praedicabo.
The Love of Christ had so prevailed with Chrysostome, that hee used to say, Ego sic censeo, sic assidue praedicabo.
And Anselm. That if on the one hand he should see sin, and on the other, the torments of Hell: he had rather choose to fall into Hell, than fall into sin.
And Anselme. That if on the one hand hee should see sin, and on the other, the torments of Hell: hee had rather chuse to fall into Hell, than fall into sin.