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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.
You see how it was with the Church, Cant. 3.4. Christ had withdrawn himself: She makes inquiry after him, but could not hear of him. At last after all her trouble, Christ appears to her soul. And you may read there, how exceedingly her heart was taken with his return. I found him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my Mothers house, Cant. 3.4.
You see how it was with the Church, Cant. 3.4. Christ had withdrawn himself: Shee makes inquiry after him, but could not hear of him. At last after all her trouble, Christ appears to her soul. And you may read there, how exceedingly her heart was taken with his return. I found him whom my soul loveth; I held him, and would not let him go, untill I had brought him into my Mothers house, Cant. 3.4.
3. When the soul doth sit down to contemplate, and read over the beauties and loves of Christ: when it is in the contemplations of those surpassing excellencies, and admired sweetness which is in Christ. And Christ (whiles the soul is busy in feeding on these thoughts) doth make a discovery of himself to the soul: makes the soul to see a vision of his glory: Oh! how is the heart taken with him! it is even drowned and sunk in a Sea of glory. Ah! what clasping, what embraces! what loves are there then betwixt Christ and the soul! It is impossible for me to express: or for me, or you to conceive. It is a vision of glory, the porch of Heaven.
3. When the soul doth sit down to contemplate, and read over the beauties and loves of Christ: when it is in the contemplations of those surpassing excellencies, and admired sweetness which is in Christ. And Christ (whiles the soul is busy in feeding on these thoughts) doth make a discovery of himself to the soul: makes the soul to see a vision of his glory: Oh! how is the heart taken with him! it is even drowned and sunk in a Sea of glory. Ah! what clasping, what imbraces! what loves are there then betwixt Christ and the soul! It is impossible for mee to express: or for mee, or you to conceive. It is a vision of glory, the porch of Heaven.