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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 8: 8. 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.
God being taken with the Persons, is taken with the performances of his People. He had respect to Abel, and then to his Offering. Christ, his heart was taken with the person, and then with his performance.
God being taken with the Persons, is taken with the performances of his People. Hee had respect to Abel, and then to his Offering. Christ, his heart was taken with the person, and then with his performance.
Hence Christ saith to his Church, Cant. 2.14. Let me see thy Countenance, let me hear thy voice: for thy Countenance is comely, and thy voice is sweet.
Hence Christ saith to his Church, Cant. 2.14. Let mee see thy Countenance, let mee hear thy voice: for thy Countenance is comely, and thy voice is sweet.
Indeed, if Acceptation should arise from the worthiness of our duties, we should never look to be accepted. There is so much sin in our services, so much evil in our good, so much coldness in our best heats, so much formality in our chiefest power, so much deadness in our best life, so much of the World, so much of our earth in our employments for Heaven. And if Acceptation should arise from any worth in them, we should be sure to miss of it: But arising from his good will and Mercy to us, his heart being first taken with us, is taken with our performances. Hence the Assurance of Acceptation.
Indeed, if Acceptation should arise from the worthiness of our duties, wee should never look to bee accepted. There is so much sin in our services, so much evil in our good, so much coldness in our best heats, so much formality in our chiefest power, so much deadness in our best life, so much of the World, so much of our earth in our imployments for Heaven. And if Acceptation should arise from any worth in them, wee should bee sure to miss of it: But arising from his good will and Mercy to us, his heart being first taken with us, is taken with our performances. Hence the Assurance of Acceptation.