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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.
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.
Wouldest thou know whether thou art one with whom Christs heart is taken? See whether thou art of his Church. Art thou one, who art taken out of the World? Art thou one, whom God hath called? one whom he hath justified? one whom he hath ⟨p. 77⟩regenerated? sanctified? Art thou one, who art washed, purged, renewed?
Wouldest thou know whether thou art one with whom Christs heart is taken? See whether thou art of his Church. Art thou one, who art taken out of the World? Art thou one, whom God hath called? one whom hee hath justified? one whom hee hath ⟨p. 77⟩regenerated? sanctified? Art thou one, who art washed, purged, renewed?