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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.
The thoughts of Gods Justice do stone the heart, make it more hard: but the thoughts of Gods Mercy do melt the heart.
You know you never mourn indeed, till Love, till Mercy do melt you. Every drop of tears sticks like an hailstone, and congeals in the eyes: but when Love comes in, then all the springs are opened, and a man is dissolved into waters.
So much apprehensions of this Love of Christ: so much godly sorrow. They are like the Fountain and the Stream, whereof the one doth rise no higher than the other.
The thoughts of this Love have
3. A Soul-enabling Power. It will not only engage us to service; (as the Apostle. The Love of Christ constrains me.) But it will enable us to service; make us pray, and pray with affections, pray with life; make us hear, and hear with strength. This puts us upon work, and puts life, virtue and vigour into our actions.