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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.
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.
The sweetness of Christ doth overcome all the sweetness in other things, in the Creatures.1
- 1Vincit dulcedo dulcedinem.
As it is nothing but ignorance which makes men admire any thing here on earth: if men knew the excellency of other things, they could not admire such trifles as they do.
As it is nothing but ignorance which makes men admire any thing here on earth: if men knew the excellencie of other things, they could not admire such trifles as they do.
So here, it is nothing but ignorance of better things which makes us dote upon things here below. Did we see his beauties, all the World would be blackness. Did we see his fullness, all the World were but emptiness.
So here, it is nothing but ignorance of better things which makes us dote upon things here below. Did wee see his beauties, all the World would bee blackness. Did wee see his fulness, all the World were but emptiness.