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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.
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.
Look as long as you will into Hell: pry as long as you will into the dark vaults of your souls: rake as long as you will into the kennel of your hearts. You shall find nothing in Hell, but Hell, in your hearts but sin; and having found it, run from him.
Look as long as you will into Hell: pry as long as you will into the dark vaults of your souls: rake as long as you will into the kennel of your hearts. You shall finde nothing in Hell, but Hell, in your hearts but sin; and having found it, run from him.
That man looks too much on sin, who shutteth his eyes from a mutual interview of love between God and his soul.