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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 5: 5. 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.
1. He chose us, Deut. 7.7, 8. The Lord loved you not, nor chose you, because ye were more in number than any people: but because the Lord loved you. So God did not set his heart on us, because we were better than others; for there are others in the World who might have been made more lovely.
1. Hee chose us, Deut. 7.7, 8. The Lord loved you not, nor chose you, because yee were more in number than any people: but because the Lord loved you. So God did not set his heart on us, because wee were better than others; for there are others in the World who might have been made more lovely.
His heart is taken with us; therefore
12. He justifies us. We could do nothing to strike off any former score: for all we did, set us further in debt: it was but an adding of sin to sin, guilt to guilt: the sin of our righteousness, to the sin of our unrighteousness, Covering a blot with a blot; as Isa. 30.1.
12. Hee justifies us. Wee could do nothing to strike off any former score: for all wee did, set us further in debt: it was but an adding of sin to sin, guilt to guilt: the sin of our righteousness, to the sin of our unrighteousness, Covering a blot with a blot; as