The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

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.

When Christ comes by a promise into the soul, and displays his glory, the Riches, and Greatness, and Freeness of his Grace, as to Moses; The Lord God, gracious and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin, Exod. 34.6. I, I am he who forgiveth thy iniquities, &c. Isa. 43.25. Then is the soul beyond expression, enamoured with him; now it is overcome with his beauties and excellencies, and even ravished with his love. And this is the first eminent taking of the heart with Christ.

When Christ comes by a promise into the soul, and displaies his glory, the Riches, and Greatness, and Freeness of his Grace, as to Moses; The Lord God, gracious and mercifull, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin,