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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.
4. When we stagger and doubt, give way to misgiving thoughts of Christs Love, and unbeleevings of our own hearts: we abuse this Love.
4. When wee stagger and doubt, give way to misgiving thoughts of Christs Love, and unbeleevings of our own hearts: wee abuse this Love.
What is it possible that Christ should do or suffer more than he hath done and suffered to persuade your hearts of his Love?
What is it possible that Christ should do or suffer more than hee hath done and suffered to perswade your hearts of his Love?
If Christ should ask the question of you, who doubt most of his Love. What shall I do to answer your scruples: to satisfy your souls for ever, in this, that I love you? could you rationally desire more than what he hath expressed in his words, and to your heart, and if notwithstanding all be in vain,1 may he not justly say as David of Nabal. Surely in vain have I done all this, when this all cometh to nothing.
If Christ should ask the question of you, who doubt most of his Love. What shall I do to answer your scruples: to satisfie your souls for ever, in this, that I love you? could you rationally desire more than what hee hath expressed in his words, and to your heart, and if notwithstanding all bee in vain,1 may hee not justly say as David of Nabal. Surely in vain have I done all this, when this all commeth to nothing.