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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 7: 7. 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.
Is the heart of Christ so much taken with his Church and People. Then woe be to them that offend his Church. If you touch them, you touch the apple of his eye.
Is the heart of Christ so much taken with his Church and People. Then woe bee to them that offend his Church. If you touch them, you touch the apple of his eye.
Gods People are dear to God. They are his Spouse, his Children, his Members, purchased with the price of his blood; his inheritance, his Portion, all his comings-in. Those he dyed for, shed his blood for, one drop whereof is worth a thousand Worlds. And therefore those whom he was content to shed his blood for, certainly he doth more esteem than all the World besides.
Gods People are dear to God. They are his Spouse, his Children, his Members, purchased with the price of his bloud; his inheritance, his Portion, all his commings-in. Those hee dyed for, shed his bloud for, one drop whereof is worth a thousand Worlds. And therefore those whom hee was content to shed his bloud for, certainly hee doth more esteem than all the World besides.
We say, whiles the Iron is in its own nature, you may handle it, and meddle with it; but if once the nature of fire be added unto it, if you touch it, it will burn you: So whiles the Children of God, are but the Children of men, you may deal with them as with other men; but if once the nature of God be stamped on them, the Image of Christ be drawn upon them, it will be dangerous for you to meddle with them, least fire break out of their mouth to devour you.
Wee say, whiles the Iron is in its own nature, you may handle it, and meddle with it; but if once the nature of fire bee added unto it, if you touch it, it will burn you: So whiles the Children of God, are but the Children of men, you may deal with them as with other men; but if once the nature of God bee stamped on them, the Image of Christ bee drawn upon them, it will bee dangerous for you to meddle with them, least fire break out of their mouth to devoure you.