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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.
Christ doth here speak in the manner of a Lover, whose heart is exceedingly ravished, and taken with the beauties, virtues, and graces of his Spouse.
Christ doth here speak in the manner of a Lover, whose heart is exceedingly ravished, and taken with the beauties, vertues, and graces of his Spouse.
Give me leave to explain the words, and we come to Doctrine.
Give mee leave to explain the words, and wee come to Doctrin.
1. Thou hast ravished.] What is meant by that? The expression is great, that the God of Heaven should be so taken, even to ravishment with his Church and people. And yet let me tell you, the word speaks more than any expression can utter.
1. Thou hast ravished.] What is meant by that? The expression is great, that the God of Heaven should bee so taken, even to ravishment with his Church and people. And yet let mee tell you, the word speaks more than any expression can utter.