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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.
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.
13. Be much in the contemplation of this Love of Christ. Dwell upon this. This Love of Christ will be matter of eternal perusal in Heaven. We shall do nothing but read over this Love. Oh! let us not be strangers to it now.
13. Bee much in the contemplation of this Love of Christ. Dwell upon this. This Love of Christ will bee matter of eternal perusal in Heaven. Wee shall do nothing but read over this Love. Oh! let us not bee strangers to it now.
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