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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.
A TREATISE OF THE LOVES OF CHRIST TO HIS SPOUSE. › Consectary 1: 1. Consectary.
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.
1. Consectary.
1. This then may be a ground for us to expect, and hence our Faith may be strengthened in the expectation, that Christ will yet do more for his Church and People, than yet he hath done.
1. This then may bee a ground for us to expect, and hence our Faith may bee strengthened in the expectation, that Christ will yet do more for his Church and People, than yet hee hath done.
Indeed he hath done much for our Nation, for our English Zion.
Indeed hee hath done much for our Nation, for our English Sion.
He might have ruined us, for a Generation of such as provoked him. We have been a Provocation of his Anger to this day. He might have suffered our carcasses to have fallen in the Wilderness, and kept our posterity to have entered into Canaan. We have looked toward Egypt, toward Babylon. He might have laid the foundation of purer times in our blood, raised up a purer Church upon the ruins of us.