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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 will but give you these three grounds, all which are taken not from us, but from himself, his own mercy. In brief, Either From his own Grace to us, 1Or From his own Grace in us.
Wee will but give you these three grounds, all which are taken not from us, but from himself, his own mercy. In brief, Either From his own Grace to us, 1Or From his own Grace in us.
- 1Amat Deus non aliundè hoc habet; sed ipse est undè amat; et ideô vehementius amat, quia non amorem tam habet, quam hoc est ipse. Bern.
The first Ground or Reason, why the Heart of Christ is so taken, is,
1. Because we are his. Propriety you know is the great ground of love. We love our own; our own Husbands, Wives, Children: They are ours, we have propriety in them. So here; we are His; He hath propriety in us, and therefore loves us, Cant. 7.10.1 The Spouse makes the same argument. I am my Beloveds, and he is mine: therefore his desire is towards me, therefore his heart is taken with me; therefore his soul loves me. And we are his, in the dearest and sweetest relations.
1. Because wee are his. Propriety you know is the great ground of love. Wee love our own; our own Husbands, Wives, Children: They are ours, wee have propriety in them. So here; wee are His; Hee hath propriety in us, and therefore loves us,