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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.
Wouldest thou nourish thy Love? Oh, Read here of the Love of God to thee; that height, depth, that length and breadth of his love in Christ; That love that passeth Knowledge, And this will be a burning-Glass to kindle love and affections to him. This will be as the Load-stone to draw thee. Read here of the excellencies of God, which may draw thy affections.
Would'st thou nourish thy Love? Oh, Read here of the Love of God to thee; that height, depth, that length and breadth of his love in Christ; That love that passeth Knowledge, And this will bee a burning-Glass to kindle love and affections to him. This will bee as the Load-stone to draw thee. Read here of the excellencies of God, which may draw thy affections.
Wouldest thou nourish thy Humility? Oh, Read here, what ⟨p. 101⟩thou wast by Nature. Look into the Glass of the Law. That will discover thy vileness, lay thee in the dust. Read Ezek. 16. See what a piece thou wast, and then be proud if thou canst.
Would'st thou nourish thy Humility? Oh, Read here, what ⟨p. 101⟩thou wast by Nature. Look into the Glass of the Law. That will discover thy vileness, lay thee in the dust. Read Ezek. 16. See what a peece thou wast, and then bee proud if thou canst.
Wouldest thou nourish thy Zeal? Read here of the Zeal of others; which may kindle Zeal in thee.