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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.
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.
Men that are at the top of an high place, if they look downwards, their eyes dazzle, and their heads grow dizzy: but if they look up towards Heaven, they recover themselves again. God hath raised us up to some height of mercy; and if we look downwards, if we look upon our selves, we are driven past the utmost of our thoughts: but let us look up to Heaven, whence this mercy we have, hath its spring and foundation, and we shall quickly recover.
Men that are at the top of an high place, if they look downwards, their eyes dazle, and their heads grow dizzy: but if they look up towards Heaven, they recover themselves again. God hath raised us up to some height of mercy; and if wee look downwards, if wee look upon our selves, wee are driven past the utmost of our thoughts: but let us look up to Heaven, whence this mercy wee have, hath its spring and foundation, and wee shall quickly recover.