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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.
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!
How grievous would it be to you, to be forced to take hard courses with a Child your heart is taken withal? though it be to do him good.
How grievous would it bee to you, to bee forced to take hard courses with a Child your heart is taken withall? though it bee to do him good.
Why God is taken with his Church, and do you not think it moves God to afflict and chastise it?
We would fain do all the good we can to the persons we love. Oh! we can never do enough for them. Why so it is with God to his Church: He loves his Church, and willingly would he do any thing for it. And it is the grief of his soul, that he must take contrary courses with us, to do us good: that he must be forced to afflict and chastise them he loves so dearly: to bring them to Life by Death, to Good by Evil, to a Crown by Crosses.