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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.
2. Thou, who before couldest not believe, couldest not be comforted, wilt even think it a wonder, that ever thy heart should be so dark, so doubtful.
2. Thou, who before couldest not beleeve, couldest not bee comforted, wilt even think it a wonder, that ever thy heart should bee so dark, so doubtful.
3. Thou, who before wast dead, shalt now find a spirit of life come into thee, and make thee active in the work of the Lord.
3. Thou, who before wast dead, shalt now finde a spirit of life come into thee, and make thee active in the work of the Lord.
Make but the Experiment, and thou wilt converse more with the promise, with the Love of Christ, with the Free-Grace of God, whiles thou livest; if you would but remove your unbelief.
But who shall remove this stone? God alone must do it. But if this were done, this truth would let in a flood of mercy upon you; and even sink and over-whelm you in a Sea of mercy and glory; where now you go drooping, and hang down your heads, because you will not own that portion, which Christ hath left you; nor that comfort which Christ doth tender and speak to you.