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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.
And Isa. 54.9, 10. saith the Lord (speaking of the Covenant of Grace, which he will make with his people.) It shall be as the Waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the Waters of Noah should no more go over the Earth: so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. As if he had said, this is as sure as the other: the one as firm as the other. You have experience of the one, believe the other. I give you the same pawn, the same seal of Heaven to confirm it.
And Isa. 54.9, 10. saith the Lord (speaking of the Covenant of Grace, which hee will make with his people.) It shall bee as the Waters of Noah unto mee: for as I have sworn that the Waters of Noah should no more go over the Earth: so have I sworn that I will not bee wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. As if hee had said, this is as sure as the other: the one as firm as the other. You have experience of the one, beleeve the other. I give you the same pawn, the same seal of Heaven to confirm it.
If Men were as bad as Devils, they should never bring a second flood upon the World; because God hath sworn never to destroy it. And as he hath sworn to that, and is therefore steadfast and immutable. So he hath sworn to the other, that he will never leave you, nor forsake you; and therefore God will not.
If Men were as bad as Devils, they should never bring a second flood upon the World; because God hath sworn never to destroy it. And as hee hath sworn to that, and is therefore stedfast and immutable. So hee hath sworn to the other, that hee will never leave you, nor forsake you; and therefore God will not.