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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 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.
A man will not rejoyce over the injoyment of that hee loves not. The rich Fool rejoyced over his full Barns, but it was because his heart was taken with his possessions.
Joy is a fruit of the hearts being taken with any thing; you rejoice in your riches, Husbands, &c. in the possession of what ever your heart loves. Now the Heart of Jesus Christ doth exceedingly rejoice over his Church and People; they are his by donation, God gave them to him; they are his by purchase, he laid down his life for them; if we lay down our life to compass a thing sure we rejoice in it.
Joy is a fruit of the hearts being taken with any thing; you rejoyce in your riches, Husbands, &c. in the possession of what ever your heart loves. Now the Heart of Jesus Christ doth exceedingly rejoyce over his Church and People; they are his by donation, God gave them to him; they are his by purchase, hee laid down his life for them; if wee lay down our life to compass a thing sure wee rejoyce in it.
We are his Riches, we his Treasure, his Ammies, Ruhama's, and Hephzibah's, his precious ones, his People, his Spouse; and therefore he must needs rejoice over us, Isa. 62.4, 5. Thou shalt be called Heph-zibah, for the Lord delighteth in thee: yea as the Bridegroom rejoiceth over the Bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee, Zeph. 3.17. The Lord will rejoice over thee with Joy, he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing. And therefore seeing Christ doth rejoice. Ergo is the Heart of Jesus Christ exceedingly taken, &c.