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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.
That man looks too much on sin, who shutteth his eyes from a mutual interview of love between God and his soul.
And hither you must come at last. Free-Grace must be owned; Free-Mercy must be acknowledged, and advanced by you; if ever you would be saved; if ever you would be comforted.
And hither you must come at last. Free-Grace must bee owned; Free-Mercy must bee acknowledged, and advanced by you; if ever you would bee saved; if ever you would bee comforted.
You m•y think what you will; but sure I am, 1. There are no Christians more cheerful. 2. None are more thankful. 3. None are more humble. 4. None are more believing. 5. None are more active. 6. None are more courageous. 7. None more serviceable and useful toward God and men, than they, who lye continually at the breast of the promise; than they, ⟨p. 94⟩who set up Gods Free-Grace; and own that good which God makes out to them.
You m•y think what you will; but sure I am, 1. There are no Christians more chearfull. 2. None are more thankfull. 3. None are more humble. 4. None are more beleeving. 5. None are more active. 6. None are more couragious. 7. None more serviceable and usefull toward God and men, than they, who lye continually at the breast of the promise; than they, ⟨p. 94⟩who set up Gods Free-Grace; and own that good which God makes out to them.