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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.
And you see, as he appeared in his Glory, so he made the Church glorious, Isa. 54.11, 12, 13. (speaking of the same time.) Behold I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with Sapphires. I will make thy windows of Agates, and thy gates of Carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
And you see, as hee appeared in his Glory, so hee made the Church glorious, Isa. 54.11, 12, 13. (speaking of the same time.) Behold I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with Saphires. I will make thy windows of Agates, and thy gates of Carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
2. Christ now comes in, with the Performance of Promises; and needs then must he be glorious, and the Church be taken with him.
If Christ were so glorious, when he made those promises: what is he, when he comes in to make good those Promises? Christ hath reserved abundance of his visible Glory to be seen by his Church; now at the end of the World.
If Christ were so glorious, when hee made those promises: what is hee, when hee comes in to make good those Promises? Christ hath reserved abundance of his visible Glory to bee seen by his Church; now at the end of the World.