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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.
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.
Wee are his Riches, wee his Treasure, his Ammies, Ruhama's, and Hephzibah's, his precious ones, his People, his Spouse; and therefore hee must needs rejoyce over us, Isa. 62.4, 5. Thou shalt bee called Heph-zibah, for the Lord delighteth in thee: yea as the Bridegroom rejoyceth over the Bride, so shall thy God rejoyce over thee, Zeph. 3.17. The Lord will rejoyce over thee with Joy, hee will rest in his love, hee will joy over thee with singing. And therefore seeing Christ doth rejoyce. Ergo is the Heart of Jesus Christ exceedingly taken, &c.
That which a man doth delight to converse withal, that his heart is taken withal.
That which a man doth delight to converse withall, that his heart is taken withall.
Now Christ doth delight exceedingly to converse with his Saints, he loves to speak to them, and he loves to hear them speak to him,