A28620:847
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.
But, when I recover my self, and look upon the ground of Gods doing good to his Church and People: Not to be any goodness in the Church: but merely his own goodness: This doth revive me again; put heart into me that God will yet do greater things for his Church, than yet he hath done.
But, when I recover my self, and look upon the ground of Gods doing good to his Church and People: Not to bee any goodness in the Church: but meerly his own goodness: This doth revive mee again; put heart into mee that God will yet do greater things for his Church, than yet hee hath done.
As I said before; when God doth execute Judgements upon his Church, he adds Judgement to Judgement: so much more, when he comes in a way of Mercy to his Church, he adds Mercy to Mercy.
As I said before; when God doth execute Judgements upon his Church, hee adds Judgement to Judgement: so much more, when hee comes in a way of Mercy to his Church, hee adds Mercy to Mercy.
God is oftentimes weary in going on in a way of Judgement, because the exercise of his Judgements are drawn out by us, our sins. He is said not to afflict willingly: and his Judgements he calls his strange work. It is not so natural to God, and therefore he is quickly weary of it.
God is oftentimes weary in going on in a way of Judgement, because the exercise of his Judgements are drawn out by us, our sins. Hee is said not to afflict willingly: and his Judgements hee calls his strange work. It is not so natural to God, and therefore he is quickly weary of it.