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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.
God hath done great things for us; and from this they have arisen: His Heart is taken with us, his Love towards us, Jer. 31.3, 4. I loved thee with an everlasting love; — therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee.
Alas! If God had looked upon us, and taken either ground or motive from any thing in us, to do this for us, we should never have enjoyed it.
Alas! If God had looked upon us, and taken either ground or motive from any thing in us, to do this for us, wee should never have injoyed it.
1. There was no ground, no foundation of desert in us. (We abhor the thoughts of it) for God to raise such a fabric of mercy upon, as he hath done.
1. There was no ground, no foundation of desert in us. (Wee abhorre the thoughts of it) for God to raise such a fabrick of mercy upon, as hee hath done.