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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.
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.
Hee might have ruined us, for a Generation of such as provoked him. Wee have been a Provocation of his Anger to this day. Hee might have suffered our carkasses to have fallen in the Wilderness, and kept our posterity to have entered into Canaan. Wee have looked toward Egypt, toward Babylon. Hee might have laid the foundation of purer times in our bloud, raised up a purer Church upon the ruines of us.
But God hath seemed to over-look our great unworthiness: And to the terror of our enemies, and even to the astonishment and wonder of us all, hath begun, set forth, and gone forward in a way of mercy; such ways as have been untrodden in former times.
But God hath seemed to over-look our great unworthiness: And to the terror of our enemies, and even to the astonishment and wonder of us all, hath begun, set forth, and gone forward in a way of mercy; such wayes as have been untrodden in former times.
And that which God hath given us in hand, is an earnest of what we have in hope: that we have in possession bids us but look to what we have in promise.
And that which God hath given us in hand, is an earnest of what wee have in hope: that wee have in possession bids us but look to what wee have in promise.