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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.
But the true holiness flows from Christ, and is imparted from Christ to his Church, whereby she is beautiful with his beauties, adorned with his Graces. And being thus, the Heart of Jesus Christ must needs be taken with her.
But the true holinesse flows from Christ, and is imparted from Christ to his Church, whereby shee is beautifull with his beauties, adorned with his Graces. And being thus, the Heart of Jesus Christ must needs bee taken with her.
Thus you see the second Reason, why the Heart of Christ is so much taken. Because she is adorned with his Beauties, clothed with his Righteousness, adorned and beautified with his Graces; which engageth the Heart of Jesus Christ.
Thus you see the second Reason, why the Heart of Christ is so much taken. Because shee is adorned with his Beauties, cloathed with his Righteousness, adorned and beautified with his Graces; which ingageth the Heart of Jesus Christ.
He that loved us in our own blood, cannot choose but love us, as ⟨p. 58⟩we have his beauty put upon us; he cannot but love himself, and delight in himself, where-ever he doth behold himself: why these beauties are pieces of himself, part of his beauty, his rays wherewith he himself is adorned. And he cannot look upon any soul clothed with his Righteousness, and beautified with his Graces, but his heart is exceedingly taken with them, Cant. 6.4, 5. Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Christ seems as not able to bear the view of such a beauty. Turn away thine eyes, &c.