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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. Dost thou labour under a proud heart? this would humble thee.
2. Dost thou labour under a dejected heart? this would raise thee.
3. Under a dark heart? this would comfort, revive thee.
4. Under a dead heart? this would quicken thee, and put the Spirit of Heaven into thee, whiles thou art on earth.
5. Under an hard heart? this would break thee. Nay this would melt thee, dissolve thee into waters.