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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.
Did we not fear, that we were come up to this, that there was no remedy? That God should have opened the Sluices of his wrath, and let in a Sea of his displeasure upon us? made us an Aceldama, a field of Blood, long before this?
Did wee not fear, that wee were come up to this, that there was no remedy? That God should have opened the Sluces of his wrath, and let in a Sea of his displeasure upon us? made us an Aceldema, a field of Blood, long before this?
Ah, my Brethren! Never Nation, never Church from whom God hath showed himself more unwilling to depart and leave, than England.
Ah, my Brethren! Never Nation, never Church from whom God hath shewed himself more unwilling to depart and leave, than England.
Look upon the passages of us to God, and his ways towards us; and see how unwilling he declared himself. God hath upheld us, as if he himself should fall, if we did not stand: as if his Glory could not stand, if we fall: as if his Glory had depended upon our preservation.
Look upon the passages of us to God, and his wayes towards us; and see how unwilling hee declared himself. God hath upheld us, as if hee himself should fall, if wee did not stand: as if his Glory could not stand, if wee fall: as if his Glory had depended upon our preservation.