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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.
If any thing in his Church were the foundation of the structure of mercy, which we expect God to raise, we might look for a mean building. Such weak foundations must have as weak a structure. A building must be proportionable to the foundation. But seeing Gods own heart is the foundation; his own mercy and good will towards us, which is so strong, so firm, so full a foundation: Hence it is, that we may expect a structure of mercy suitable to the foundation.
If any thing in his Church were the foundation of the structure of mercy, which wee expect God to raise, wee might look for a mean building. Such weak foundations must have as weak a structure. A building must bee proportionable to the foundation. But seeing Gods own heart is the foundation; his own mercy and good will towards us, which is so strong, so firm, so full a foundation: Hence it is, that wee may expect a structure of mercy suitable to the foundation.
And, as this is the foundation of all those great and stupendous things, which God hath done for us: So it is a ground for us to expect, that God will yet do greater things for us, than ever he hath done.
And, as this is the foundation of all those great and stupendious things, which God hath done for us: So it is a ground for us to expect, that God will yet do greater things for us, than ever hee hath done.
Indeed, when we look upon our selves, we are at an end in our thoughts, and think God is at an end in his Mercy: but when we look up toward God, and see there the ground of what we have, this keeps up our hearts from sinking, and causes us to look upon all we have, as an earnest of more.
Indeed, when wee look upon our selves, wee are at an end in our thoughts, and think God is at an end in his Mercy: but when wee look up toward God, and see there the ground of what wee have, this keeps up our hearts from sinking, and causes us to look upon all wee have, as an earnest of more.