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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.
I say, the more thou gets up (with Elijah) into this Chariot of love, the more would the mantle of sin and corruption depart from thee.
6. Under a worldly heart? This would dead thy heart for ever to the World, and set thee all on flame with the fire of heavenly affections.
I am confident of it; whatever a Christian desires to enjoy; whatever a Christian desires to be rid of, if he can but dwell upon this truth, and be able to manage it: He shall have it more fully, he shall have it more quickly than any other way.
I am confident of it; whatever a Christian desires to injoy; whatever a Christian desires to bee rid of, if hee can but dwell upon this truth, and bee able to manage it: Hee shall have it more fully, hee shall have it more quickly than any other way.
Wouldest thou be rid of a proud heart? wouldest thou have an humble heart? wouldest be rid of a dead heart, and desirest a quick heart? wouldest be rid of an hard heart, and have a broken heart? wouldest be rid of an unbelieving, of a doubting, of a dejected heart, and wouldest be mighty in Faith, full of comfort? Why, do but let thy soul be carried captive with this Truth: be but content this Truth should master thee; be but willing to entertain it, believe it, embrace it. I am confident on it, all this will be done. I may set down a probatum est, to it. Oh! That we were wise to manage this Truth!