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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.
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.
3. Faith looks upon a Soul-melting, a Soul-softening Object; upon Christ; a wounded, a broken Christ. And who can behold him but with an Humbled, and a broken-heart? A bleeding Christ, without a bleeding Heart?
Oh! Here is enough in this Object to open all the springs of sorrow in us; we need not to go to Bellarmines Twelve Considerations to open the Fountain of tears in us, we need not bring in the miseries of mankind for one; nor the sad condition of the Souls in Purgatory for another. We need not be beholden to him for such considerations as these, to help us to mourn. Oh! Here is enough in Christ, in a broken and wounded Christ, to open all the springs in thee; and if thou hadst a Fountain of tears, to spend them all. The Considerations of his sufferings, 1. Either in themselves. 2. Or in their cause. 3. Or as the Effects of sin.
Oh! Here is enough in this Object to open all the springs of sorrow in us; wee need not to go to Bellarmines Twelve Considerations to open the Fountain of tears in us, wee need not bring in the miseries of mankind for one; nor the sad condition of the Souls in Purgatory for another. Wee need not bee beholden to him for such considerations as these, to help us to mourn. Oh! Here is enough in Christ, in a broken and wounded Christ, to open all the springs in thee; and if thou hadst a Fountain of tears, to spend them all. The Considerations of his sufferings, 1. Either in themselves. 2. Or in their cause. 3. Or as the Effects of sin.
1. The Considerations of his breakings and sufferings as they were in themselves.