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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.
Drink of that bitter cup that they might not taste of it, be wounded that they might be healed, bear the curse, that they might carry away the blessing, as there was no sorrow to his sorrow, so no love to his love, all loves are lost, nay, seem hatred in comparison of his.
Drink of that bitter cup that they might not taste of it, bee wounded that they might bee healed, bear the curse, that they might carry away the blessing, as there was no sorrow to his sorrow, so no love to his love, all loves are lost, nay, seem hatred in comparison of his.
Another place, John 7.9. to the 16. see there when he was to go from them, how chary he was over them, he commends them to his Father, and desires him to keep them whom he had given him. As if he had said, Father they are mine, and I love them dearly, I have done much for them, but I will do more, therefore preserve them, therefore keep them.
Another place, John 7.9. to the 16. see there when he was to go from them, how chary hee was over them, he commends them to his Father, and desines him to keep them whom hee had given him. As if hee had said, Father they are mine, and I love them dearly, I have done much for them, but I will do more, therefore preserve them, therefore keep them.
I am no more in the World, but these are in the World, holy Father, through thine own name keep those whom thou hast given me; thus ⟨p. 51⟩you see how chary Christ was over them. And therefore his heart is exceedingly taken with his Church.