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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.
Art thou one, whose heart is taken with Christ? If Christ be taken with thee, thou art taken with Christ. It is a mutual, a reciprocal taking. Whatever God doth to the soul, it makes an impression in the soul of the like to God. God delights in us; and thereupon we come to delight in him. God knows us, and thereupon we know him, Joh. 10.14. God apprehends us, and thereupon we apprehend him. He chooseth us, and thereupon we choose him. He loves us, and thereupon we love him, 1 Joh. 4.19. His heart is taken with us, and thereupon our hearts come to be taken with him. Our love to him is nothing else but radius amoris Dei erga nos in Deum reflexus: a beam of Gods love reflected back upon God. So that this now is a true character of Christs heart being taken with thee, if thy heart be taken with Christ.
Art thou one, whose heart is taken with Christ? If Christ bee taken with thee, thou art taken with Christ. It is a mutual, a reciprocal taking. Whatever God doth to the soul, it makes an impression in the soul of the like to God. God delights in us; and thereupon wee come to delight in him. God knows us, and thereupon wee know him, Joh. 10.14. God apprehends us, and thereupon wee apprehend him. Hee chuseth us, and thereupon wee chuse him. Hee loves us, and thereupon wee love him, 1 Joh. 4.19. His heart is taken with us, and thereupon our hearts come to bee taken with him. Our love to him is nothing else but radius amoris Dei erga nos in Deum reflexus: a beam of Gods love reflected back upon God. So that this now is a true character of Christs heart being taken with thee, if thy heart bee taken with Christ.
Quest. But you will say, How shall I know whether my heart be taken with Christ?
Quest. But you will say, How shall I know whether my heart bee taken with Christ?