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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.
Now then, art thou one who knows Christ? did ever God reveal him to thee in a promise? what apparitions hath Christ made to thy soul? what manifestations? what discoveries that may evidence to thee, that thou knowest him?
There are four manifestations, or discoveries of Christ to the soul, which do exceedingly take the soul. Indeed every apparition of Christ doth take the heart: but at these times the heart is not only wooed and won, but overcome with his sweetness and glory.
1. After the soul hath long lien bedrid in sorrow, been overwhelmed in the deeps of Legal Humiliation, and have been broken and shattered in pieces with consternation, and apprehensions of sin, and Gods wrath for it. Then a discovery of Christ, and apparition of Christ to the soul, is a resurrection from the dead.
1. After the soul hath long lyen bedrid in sorrow, been overwhelmed in the deeps of Legal Humiliation, and have been broken and shattered in peeces with consternation, and apprehensions of sin, and Gods wrath for it. Then a discovery of Christ, and apparition of Christ to the soul, is a resurrection from the dead.