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Name: The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657

[34], 420 [i.e. 455], [2] p. : port. · 221k words · Wing B3518 · ESTC R7007

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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.

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:709p. 62

There are many thousand Prayers registered in Gods-book, and many thousand Tears put up in Gods-bottle. Let us wait when all these shall come down upon our heads in a warm shower of Mercy.

There are many thousand Prayers registred in Gods-book, and many thousand Tears put up in Gods-bottle. Let us wait when all these shall come down upon our heads in a warm shower of Mercy.

:710p. 62

Wait when the great revenue of Prayers will come in. The longer the stay, the greater will be the harvest. We say, great Engines move slowly. ¹Small things they are quickly wheeled about; but great Mercies they are long in conception, long in the womb, and long in the birth.

Wait when the great revenew of Prayers will come in. The longer the stay, the greater will bee the harvest. Wee say, great Engines move slowly. ¹Smal things they are quickly wheeled about; but great Mercies they are long in conception, long in the womb, and long in the birth.

1Magnarum rerum tarda molimina.

:711p. 62

This is all our comfort: God will not bring to the birth, and afterward not bring forth: nor will he bring forth, and afterward shut the womb again, as he saith, Isa. 66.9.

This is all our comfort: God will not bring to the birth, and afterward not bring forth: nor will hee bring forth, and afterward shut the womb again, as hee saith,

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