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Name: The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657

[34], 420 [i.e. 455], [2] p. : port. · 221k words · Wing B3518 · ESTC R7007

Title page typeset from the transcription.

A TREATISE OF THE LOVES OF CHRIST TO HIS SPOUSE.

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.

[ Earlier:539–554 of 4,540

:539p. 47

The Church of Christ is never a moment off from the thoughts of Christ, Isa. 49.15, 16. And therefore his Heart is exceedingly taken with his Church.

:540p. 47–48

That which a man doth affectionately and indearedly love, that the ⟨p. 48⟩heart is much taken withal, be it Husband, be it Wife, Child, the World, whatever.

That which a man doth affectionately and indearedly love, that the ⟨p. 48⟩heart is much taken withall, bee it Husband, bee it Wife, Child, the World, whatever.

:541p. 48

Now Christ doth exceedingly love his Church, we are said to be the dearly beloved of his soul, Jer. 12.7. and read here, he loves us beyond all expressions, so God loved the World, Joh. 3.16. so Christ he loves us beyond all conceptions, Ephes. 3.19. it is a love which passeth knowledge.

Now Christ doth exceedingly love his Church, wee are said to bee the dearly beloved of his soul, Jer. 12.7. and read here, hee loves us beyond all expressions, so God loved the World,

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