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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. Expectations of Hope, the Object whereof is Good.
2. Or, Expectations of Fear, the Object whereof is Evil.
3. Or, Mixed Expectations between Hope and Fear, as our times are; they are times of Expectation, and therefore they ought to be times of Supplication. We are now big with Expectation; let us now be mighty in Supplication. Great Stones are not to be turned over without great strength. Great Mercies are not to be gotten without great strivings. The Man-child of Deliverance is not to be brought forth without pangs.
3. Or, Mixed Expectations between Hope and Fear, as our times are; they are times of Expectation, and therefore they ought to bee times of Supplication. Wee are now big with Expectation; let us now bee mighty in Supplication. Great Stones are not to bee turned over without great strength. Great Mercies are not to bee gotten without great strivings. The Man-child of Deliverance is not to bee brought forth without pangs.