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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.
In the former Chapter we read, how the Church, the Spouse of Christ doth declare her exceeding love to Christ, and her high appreciations of him, with her earnest desire to enjoy him, whom her soul saw so precious, and that Christ might discover to her, how kindly he took her affection.
In the former Chapter we read, how the Church, the Spouse of Christ doth declare her exceeding love to Christ, and her high appretiations of him, with her earnest desire to injoy him, whom her soul saw so precious, and that Christ might discover to her, how kindly hee took her affection.
In this Chapter he doth again enter into a singular commendation of the excellency of the Church, declaring also his unfeigned love to her.
In this Chapter hee doth again enter into a singular commendation of the excellency of the Church, declaring also his unfeigned love to her.
The whole Chapter contains these parts.
1. A singular commendation of the Church by Christ; which is set down allegorically from the first verse to the fifth, and from the tenth to the fourteenth verse.