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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.
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.
Though there be nothing in us; yet there is something in God; and that which is in God is the ground of this mercy; and therefore will he go on in the ways of his own mercy.
Though there bee nothing in us; yet there is something in God; and that which is in God is the ground of this mercy; and therefore will hee go on in the wayes of his own mercy.
I have often thought within my self; how far God at this time ⟨p. 73⟩hath out-gone his people in Mercy.