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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.
True Desire is strong Desire, that will not be satisfied, but with the thing desired: as Rachel for Children. — Give me Children, or else I dye: so here. — Give me Christ, or else I dye. The soul is ready to faint and mis-carry, with the longings it hath after Christ.
True Desire is strong Desire, that will not bee satisfied, but with the thing desired: as Rachel for Children. — Give mee Children, or else I dye: so here. — Give mee Christ, or else I dye. The soul is ready to faint and mis-carry, with the longings it hath after Christ.
4. They are idle, not industrious Desires. The Desires of the sluggard, who will not put his hand to the use of the means for obtaining of his Desire: who will not Hear, Read, Pray, &c.
Where on the contrary, a vehement intention after Christ, is joined with a vehement intention after the use of means for the getting of Christ. True Desires after Christ, are ever joined with honest endeavours for Christ. He, who desires with an honest heart, will labour with an industrious spirit.
Where on the contrary, a vehement intention after Christ, is joyned with a vehement intention after the use of means for the getting of Christ. True Desires after Christ, are ever joyned with honest indeavours for Christ. Hee, who desires with an honest heart, will labour with an industrious spirit.