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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.
Peter did but let a word of Christ fall, and it is a door to open to further discourse of him. He takes occasion upon the naming of ⟨p. 95⟩him, to enter into discourse concerning him. As you see, 1 Pet. 1.7, 8. So greatly were their hearts taken with Christ, that they could think nothing but Christ, speak nothing but Christ. No sentence complete, wherein Christ was not part of it.
Peter did but let a word of Christ fall, and it is a door to open to further discourse of him. Hee takes occasion upon the naming of ⟨p. 95⟩him, to enter into discourse concerning him. As you see, 1 Pet. 1.7, 8. So greatly were their hearts taken with Christ, that they could think nothing but Christ, speak nothing but Christ. No sentence compleat, wherein Christ was not part of it.
He was the one of their esteems; the one of their affections; the one of their desires; the one of their delights. And so ought he to be of ours.
Hee was the one of their esteems; the one of their affections; the one of their desires; the one of their delights. And so ought hee to bee of ours.
Get your hearts taken with Christ, this will make you Christians indeed; this will make you humble, active, cheerful Christians.