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Name: The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657

[34], 420 [i.e. 455], [2] p. : port. · 221k words · Wing B3518 · ESTC R7007

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A TREATISE OF THE LOVES OF CHRIST TO HIS SPOUSE. › Use of Exhortation.

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See what the Saints have gone through, what they have done, what they have suffered. Let but the thoughts of this love lye on your spirits a little, and you will find that Love is strong as death, Cant. 8.6. and will mightily carry us through that, which otherwise may seem impossible.

See what the Saints have gone through, what they have done, what they have suffered. Let but the thoughts of this love lye on your spirits a little, and you will finde that Love is strong as death, Cant. 8.6. and will mightily carry us through that, which otherwise may seem impossible.

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4. Soul-ennobling thoughts. They will make you like themselves. Whatever the soul feeds on, the soul is digested into the nature of it. So here, feed on the thoughts of this love, and your spirit will be digested into it. Whiles we behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord; we are changed into the same Image, from Glory to Glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord, 2 Cor. 3.18.

4. Soul-innobling thoughts. They will make you like themselves. Whatever the soul feeds on, the soul is digested into the nature of it. So here, feed on the thoughts of this love, and your spirit will bee digested into it. Whiles wee behold as in a glass the glory of the Lord; wee are changed into the same Image, from Glory to Glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord,

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