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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.
1. Soul-humbling Thoughts. Nothing lays the soul lower than Love. The consideration of this will vile a man to Hell, Ezek. 36.25, to 33. where you may read some expressions of love, how it affects.
1. Soul-humbling Thoughts. Nothing layes the soul lower than Love. The consideration of this will vile a man to Hell, Ezek. 36.25, to 33. where you may read some expressions of love, how it affects.
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2. Soul-melting Thoughts. They will not only humble, but melt; not only break, but dissolve the heart. Nothing doth melt the soul more than Love.
The Law may break us; but it is as the breaking of a flint; every dust retains hardness: but it is the Gospel that melteth us.