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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.
If thou look upon thy self at the worst, thou mayest be discouraged. If at the best, thou mayest be deceived. Many have had such affections in an Heat, which in cold blood have nothing of them.
If thou look upon thy self at the worst, thou mayest bee discouraged. If at the best, thou mayest bee deceived. Many have had such affections in an Heat, which in cold blood have nothing of them.
4. Judge not of thy self by particular actions and carriages: but look upon the universal frame and bent of thy spirit. No certain rule is to be established upon a particular instance, whether good or bad.
4. Judge not of thy self by particular actions and carriages: but look upon the universal frame and bent of thy spirit. No certain rule is to bee established upon a particular instance, whether good or bad.
I might lay down other rules to observe in your inquiry. But we will come to the inquiry it self.
I might lay down other rules to observe in your inquiry. But wee will come to the inquiry it self.