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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.
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, Cant. 7.10.1 The Spouse makes the same argument. I am my Beloveds, and hee is mine: therefore his desire is towards mee, therefore his heart is taken with mee; therefore his soul loves mee. And wee are his, in the dearest and sweetest relations.
1. We are his People, his subjects. Christ is the King of Saints, whose throne is in our hearts, and will brook no Rival: whose Sceptre is his Word, and whose Word is our Law. Nay, least this be too little.