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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.
To be brief, we are his these four ways. We are his 1. By Choice. 2. By Purchase. 3. By Donation. 4. By Covenant.
To bee brief, wee are his these four wayes. Wee are his 1. By Choice. 2. By Purchase. 3. By Donation. 4. By Covenant.
1. First, We are his By Choice. He set his heart on us from everlasting, which was his first love, and that which hath carried God through all the expressions of his mercy towards us, to this day, even to admiration of Angels, and astonishment of men. These were his primitive, his bosom-thoughts to us, his first love, which is most dear and precious. As the first love of the Creature to the Creator is most precious in Gods esteem: the Virgin-love of the soul to God; those affections the soul hath, when first enamoured with God. Therefore he tells the Children of Israel: He remembered the time of her Espousals, the kindness of her youth. That will not out of his mind, Jer. 2.2.
1. First, Wee are his By Choice. Hee set his heart on us from everlasting, which was his first love, and that which hath carried God through all the expressions of his mercy towards us, to this day, even to admiration of Angels, and astonishment of men. These were his primitive, his bosome-thoughts to us, his first love, which is most dear and precious. As the first love of the Creature to the Creator is most precious in Gods esteem: the Virgin-love of the soul to God; those affections the soul hath, when first enamoured with God. Therefore hee tells the Children of Israel: Hee remembred the time of her Espousals, the kindness of her youth. That will not out of his mind, Jer. 2.2.