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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.
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.
2. In your inquiry let not any thing which is compatible with any, who have no interest in this love, be a bottom, on which your soul resteth.
2. In your inquiry let not any thing which is compatible with any, who have no interest in this love, bee a bottom, on which your soul resteth.
I have told you sometimes, and tell you again. Whatever another man may have and do, and yet have no interest in this love of Christ, cannot be a sufficient evidence for thee, that thou having or doing that, hast an interest. — Acquaint thy self with the most clearing and proving evidences.
I have told you sometimes, and tell you again. Whatever another man may have and do, and yet have no interest in this love of Christ, cannot bee a sufficient evidence for thee, that thou having or doing that, hast an interest. — Acquaint thy self with the most clearing and proving evidences.