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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 2: 2. 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.
2. Consectary.
If the Heart of Christ be once taken with his Church and People: Then he will never take his heart off from them. His heart once taken, shall never be taken off. Men may love to day, and hate to morrow: but God cannot: whom he loves once, he loves to the end; even to all eternity.
If the Heart of Christ bee once taken with his Church and People: Then hee will never take his heart off from them. His heart once taken, shall never bee taken off. Men may love to day, and hate to morrow: but God cannot: whom hee loves once, hee loves to the end; even to all eternity.
As there was nothing in us, that was the ground of his planting his love upon us: so there is nothing that shall be able to over-turn the thoughts of his love, when once they are fixed on us.
As there was nothing in us, that was the ground of his planting his love upon us: so there is nothing that shall bee able to over-turn the thoughts of his love, when once they are fixed on us.
Indeed our behaviour may be such, as may cause God to be angry with us, and correct us sharply; yea, and make us to know, we had better never to have tried conclusions with him: But there is nothing shall cause him to hate us, and cast us off. He may correct his Spouse, but he will not divorce her. The Israelites were so hard-hearted, that for every trivial fact they would put away their Wives: But the Lord hates putting away,