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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. The Church is his Fold, and he will destroy the Wolves, which have gotten in to devour the sheep.
1. The Church is his Fold, and hee will destroy the Wolves, which have gotten in to devoure the sheep.
2. The Church is his Field, and he will weed out the Tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them.
2. The Church is his Field, and hee will weed out the Tares, and binde them in bundles to burn them.
3. The Church is his House, and he will sweep it.
3. The Church is his House, and hee will sweep it.
4. It is his Floor, and he will fan, and blow away the chaff.