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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.
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.
Wee would fain do all the good wee can to the persons wee love. Oh! wee can never do enough for them. Why so it is with God to his Church: Hee loves his Church, and willingly would hee do any thing for it. And it is the grief of his soul, that hee must take contrary courses with us, to do us good: that hee must bee forced to afflict and chastise them hee loves so dearly: to bring them to Life by Death, to Good by Evil, to a Crown by Crosses.
When God parted with the ten Tribes, you see what a conflict there was in him: how his bowels stirred, and were moved towards them, notwithstanding all their sins, Hos. 11.8. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim! How shall I deliver thee, Israel! How shall I make thee as Admah! How shall I set thee as Zeboim! My heart is turned within me; my repentings are kindled together.
When God parted with the ten Tribes, you see what a conflict there was in him: how his bowels stirred, and were moved towards them, notwithstanding all their sins, Hos. 11.8. How shall I give thee up, Ephraim! How shall I deliver thee, Israel! How shall I make thee as Admah! How shall I set thee as Zeboim! My heart is turned within mee; my repentings are kindled together.