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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.
And being his by Donation, God having made them over to Christ by Deed of Gift, being the full desire of Christ, hence the Heart of Christ is taken with them.
4. We are his By Covenant, Ezek. 16.8. Then I entered into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine. Christ became ours, we his: He is our King, and we his People he is our Husband, and we his Spouse: he hath given himself to us, and we ⟨p. 56⟩have re-given our selves to him: we his delight, he ours. And being his in Covenant, in mutual stipulation, and bargain, the Heart of Christ is taken with us.
4. Wee are his By Covenant, Ezek. 16.8. Then I entred into Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine. Christ became ours, wee his: Hee is our King, and wee his People hee is our Husband, and wee his Spouse: hee hath given himself to us, and wee ⟨p. 56⟩have re-given our selves to him: wee his delight, hee ours. And being his in Covenant, in mutual stipulation, and bargain, the Heart of Christ is taken with us.
2. Because she is adorned with his beauties. She is beautiful, Cant. 4.1. Cant. 6.4, 10.