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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.
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, Exod. 34.6. I, I am hee who forgiveth thy iniquities, &c. Isa. 43.25. Then is the soul beyond expression, inamoured 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.
2. When the soul hath been upon the stormy Sea of temptations and desertions; hath long laboured under the sense of Gods withdrawings and absence from the soul. And Christ returns again, breaking the dark and thick cloud, and shining into the soul. Who can then express the warmth, the comfort, the revivings, the holy heats and flames of love and affection to Christ.
2. When the soul hath been upon the stormy Sea of temptations and desertions; hath long laboured under the sense of Gods withdrawings and absence from the soul. And Christ returns again, breaking the dark and thick cloud, and shining into the soul. Who can then expresse the warmth, the comfort, the revivings, the holy heats and flames of love and affection to Christ.