A28620:535
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.
That which the thoughts are taken up withal, that the heart must needs be taken withal.
That which the thoughts are taken up withall, that the heart must needs bee taken withall.
This is plain, you know a man will busy his thoughts about that which he cares for: wouldest thou know what thou lovest;1 see what thy thoughts are upon. As if he had said, there can be no better character to discover what your hearts are taken withal, than to examine what your thoughts are most taken up withal; for what the thoughts are taken up withal, the heart is taken withal. Now the thoughts of Christ are exceedingly taken up with his Church and people. We are ever upon his thoughts.
This is plain, you know a man will busie his thoughts about that which hee cares for: wouldest thou know what thou lovest;1 see what thy thoughts are upon. As if hee had said, there can bee no better character to discover what your hearts are taken withall, than to examine what your thoughts are most taken up withall; for what the thoughts are taken up withall, the heart is taken withall. Now the thoughts of Christ are exceedingly taken up with his Church and people. Wee are ever upon his thoughts.
- 1Vis nosse quod ames, attende quod cogites. Bern.
There hath not been a moment from all eternity wherein we have been out of the thoughts of Christ.