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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.
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, Mal. 2.16.
Indeed our behaviour may bee such, as may cause God to bee angry with us, and correct us sharply; yea, and make us to know, wee had better never to have tryed conclusions with him: But there is nothing shall cause him to hate us, and cast us off. Hee may correct his Spouse, but hee 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, Mal. 2.16.
If sin fore-seen were not able to hinder him from planting his heart on us: but though he saw what we would be, yet he loved us: How then shall it be able to over-turn the thoughts of his heart, when once they are fixed on us?
If sin fore-seen were not able to hinder him from planting his heart on us: but though hee saw what wee would bee, yet hee loved us: How then shall it bee able to over-turn the thoughts of his heart, when once they are fixed on us?
Men indeed are not able to see to the utmost of things; they are not able to discover and fore-see all the inconveniences and evils that may arise: and therefore that being discovered after, which was not fore seen before, may be a ground to alter their affections, and change their thoughts, when fixed. The less Judgement and fore-sight in men, the more fickleness, and changeableness in men.