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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.
A man may express much love, but he may conceive of more than he can express. Why this love of Christ is above all we can conceive, above knowledge. It is an infinite love. It is, I say, an infinite love, which is more than if I should lay all the bowels in the Creature together, &c.
A man may express much love, but hee may conceive of more than hee can express. Why this love of Christ is above all wee can conceive, above knowledge. It is an infinite love. It is, I say, an infinite love, which is more than if I should lay all the bowels in the Creature together, &c.
A greater love than all. Witness what is done, suffered, and yet love above all. And therefore Christs Heart is exceedingly taken with his Church and People.
That which a man doth glad his heart with, and which he rejoices over, he must needs be taken with.
That which a man doth glad his heart with, and which hee rejoyces over, hee must needs bee taken with.
A man will not rejoice over the enjoyment of that he loves not. The rich Fool rejoiced over his full Barns, but it was because his heart was taken with his possessions.