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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 4: 4. 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.
4. Consectary.
If the Heart of Christ be taken with his Church and People;
If the Heart of Christ bee taken with his Church and People;
1. Then see what a fearful thing sin is, which doth cause God oftentimes to deal hardly with that, which his soul loves so dearly.
God doth oftentimes afflict and punish his Church sharply and severely: which yet his heart is much taken withal. And sin is the cause. And therefore what a fearful thing is sin!
God doth oftentimes afflict and punish his Church sharply and severely: which yet his heart is much taken withall. And sin is the cause. And therefore what a fearful thing is sin!