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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.
It is the Delight of all the blessed Trinity.
An heart taken with Christ is the humble soul indeed, is the active soul, the living soul, which breathes forth nothing but love and desire after Christ.
It is an heart dead to the world; for the World can never take that heart which once is taken with Christ. All is empty to him, whom fullness fills. All is blackness where Beauty shines.
It is an heart dead to the world; for the World can never take that heart which once is taken with Christ. All is empty to him, whom fulness fills. All is blackness where Beauty shines.
Oh! then get but an heart taken with him, and thou livest a Life of Glory, and a Life of Grace. This is the Porch of Glory, the suburbs of Heaven.