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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.
St. Jerome on that place saith, it was a Metaphor taken from the custom of the Jews, who to try their strength, had at the gates of the City great stones; if they could lift them, well and good; but if not, they crushed themselves with them: So God will make his Church a burdensome stone. Whoever lifteth at it, shall crush himself; whoever seeks to hurt it, shall ruin himself. You see it in Pharaoh, Haman, Ahithophel, Julian.
St. Jerom on that place saith, it was a Metaphor taken from the custome of the Jews, who to try their strength, had at the gates of the City great stones; if they could lift them, well and good; but if not, they crushed themselves with them: So God will make his Church a burthensome stone. Whoever lifteth at it, shall crush himself; whoever seeks to hurt it, shall ruine himself. You see it in Pharaoh, Haman, Achitophel, Julian.
Haman lifted so long at this stone, that it fell on him at last, and crushed him.
Pharaoh followed the Children of Israel so long, that he could not return at last, but was overwhelmed in the Waters.
Pharaoh followed the Children of Israel so long, that hee could not return at last, but was overwhelmed in the Waters.