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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.
And some believe it; but slightly; there wants depth of earth.
And some beleeve it; but slightly; there wants depth of earth.
And some there are (poor souls!) to whom the comfort of this truth belongs, who think this is too good news for them. They think, if they should own it, it would be but too great a sale for too small a Boat; rather overturn them, than do them good; rather ruin them, than help them. And therefore they must feed upon black thoughts, upon Hell, upon justice, upon sin, upon their corruptions.
And some there are (poor souls!) to whom the comfort of this truth belongs, who think this is too good news for them. They think, if they should own it, it would bee but too great a sale for too small a Boat; rather overturn them, than do them good; rather ruine them, than help them. And therefore they must feed upon black thoughts, upon Hell, upon justice, upon sin, upon their corruptions.
Ah! Poor souls! Satan deludes you; you take a way to undo your selves. Either to discourage you, to say there is no hope; or else to break you, that you shall never be able to do God service.
Ah! Poor souls! Satan deludes you; you take a way to undo your selves. Either to discourage you, to say there is no hope; or else to break you, that you shall never bee able to do God service.