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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.
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.
How loath was God to seal to a Bill of Divorce! His heart ⟨p. 69⟩loved her, though she was an Adultress to him.
How loath was God to seal to a Bill of Divorce! His heart ⟨p. 69⟩loved her, though shee was an Adultress to him.
And when Judah did justify the sin of her Sister Israel, exceeding her in Idols, what trouble was it to God to cast her off! How willing was he to receive her after all her adulteries? Jer. 3.1. Thou hast plaid the Harlot, &c. And when she would go on in her adulteries: yet how unwilling still was he to give her up? till at last it grew so high, that there was no Remedy,