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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.
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.
And expect the performance of it, because God loves the Church: the Heart of Christ is taken with the Church.
He loves his Church, and therefore he will purify his Church, and take away her dross and tin.