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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.
Thou mayest be a Christian; but thou wilt be a sad Christian, an uncomfortable Christian, a dark Christian, a deserted Christian, a dead Christian, an unserviceable Christian: if thou dost go on to feed upon black thoughts; and wilt not own that comfort which Christ tenders; embrace that good which Christ speaks, and believe the Riches of his Grace and Mercy to poor sinners.
Thou mayest bee a Christian; but thou wilt bee a sad Christian, an uncomfortable Christian, a dark Christian, a deserted Christian, a dead Christian, an unserviceable Christian: if thou dost go on to feed upon black thoughts; and wilt not own that comfort which Christ tenders; imbrace that good which Christ speaks, and beleeve the Riches of his Grace and Mercy to poor sinners.
Do but sit down, and from the sight and sense of thine own unworthiness, take but occasion to advance Free-Grace and Mercy. Let there be place for that to come in. Let those thoughts find entertainment. And thou shalt quickly find a strange change in thy spirit.
Do but sit down, and from the sight and sense of thine own unworthiness, take but occasion to advance Free-Grace and Mercy. Let there bee place for that to come in. Let those thoughts finde entertainment. And thou shalt quickly finde a strange change in thy spirit.
1. Thou, who couldest not mourn before, shall now be able to pour our tears, as if thou wert all turned to water.
1. Thou, who couldest not mourn before, shall now bee able to poure our tears, as if thou wert all turned to water.