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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.
4. We are his Spouse, such as he hath married to himself in faithfulness and truth, and such as he delights in.
4. Wee are his Spouse, such as hee hath married to himself in faithfulness and truth, and such as hee delights in.
5. We are his Members. The Church is his Body, his fullness, and every one Members in particular, as the Apostle speaks.
5. Wee are his Members. The Church is his Body, his fulness, and every one Members in particular, as the Apostle speaks.
6. We are his Jewels, his Treasure, Mal. 3.7. In the day that I make up my Jewels, they shall be mine. And therefore his heart must needs be taken with us. Christ hath the same argument. Where the Treasure is; there will the heart be also. The Heart, and a mans Treasure lye together. Now we are his Jewels, his Treasure, 1his Portion, his Inheritance; that which his Father left him; and he ⟨p. 54⟩must dearly earn it too. And therefore the Heart of Christ is exceedingly taken with his Church and People. So you see this is the first ground, why, because we are his, and his in the dearest, nearest, choicest of Relations.