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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.
It makes a man revive those former experiences of Gods Love; those former workings; those fore-past evidences; those broken Rings, Pledges, Love-tokens, which have passed betwixt God, and the Soul.
Such a time he took me up into his Chariot, and spake friendly to me: Such a time, I sate down under his shadow, and his Banner over me was love: Such a time he took me down into his Wine cellar, stayed me with Flagons: Such a time he brake into my soul, discovered himself to me a Reconciled God; gave me an earnest of his love, a testimony that he manifested himself to me; came and supped with me; gave me the White stone, the Hidden Manna, the New Name, &c.
Such a time hee took mee up into his Chariot, and spake friendly to mee: Such a time, I sate down under his shadow, and his Banner over mee was love: Such a time hee took mee down into his Winecellar, staied mee with Flaggons: Such a time hee brake into my soul, discovered himself to mee a Reconciled God; gave mee an earnest of his love, a testimony that hee manifested himself to mee; came and supped with mee; gave mee the White stone, the Hidden Manna, the New Name, &c.
This is the Act of Faith. Thus doth it produce the former evidences and experiences of Love; and from these doth take up arguments to raise the Soul, in this dark condition.