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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. › Use of Examination.
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.
So may you say, You tell us of the exceeding love of Christ to his Church. But what if I be not of his Church? what if I have no interest in his Love? what's all this to me?
So may you say, You tell us of the exceeding love of Christ to his Church. But what if I bee not of his Church? what if I have no interest in his Love? what's all this to mee?
But then I suppose you are desirous to know whether you have an interest in this love. It concerns your everlasting good to have an interest, and your present comfort to know you have an interest.
Now in this inquiry I would have you
1. To examine your hearts thoroughly. Deceits lye low. A false evidence is the fruit of a slight and superficial search.
1. To examin your hearts thoroughly. Deceits lye low. A false evidence is the fruit of a slight and superficial search.