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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. Were Christ precious to thee, thou wouldest never think thy self to have enough of Christ. Drink, yea drink abundantly, O Beloved! Cant. 5. the more the soul tastes and drinks, the more it thirsts, till it drink it new in the Kingdom of Heaven.
3. Were Christ precious to thee, thou wouldest never think thy self to have enough of Christ. Drink, yea drink abundantly, O Beloved! Cant. 5. the more the soul tastes and drinks, the more it thirsts, till it drink it new in the Kingdome of Heaven.
Thus, where Christ is precious, there would be actions suitable to that rate and esteem, the soul sets on him.
Thus, where Christ is precious, there would bee actions sutable to that rate and esteem, the soul sets on him.
Now, when you will take no pains for the getting of Christ; when you will part with nothing for the keeping of Christ; when you will not heap up in most abundance whatever Christ is to others, write upon it, to you it is not precious.