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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.
I say; did we but know the excellencies and beauties of Christ, and the satisfying-sweetness of his love; Nothing should have a room in our hearts, save he only. The higher we ascend toward Heaven, the lesser will the things on earth appear.
I say; did wee but know the excellencies and beauties of Christ, and the satisfying-sweetness of his love; Nothing should have a room in our hearts, save hee only. The higher wee ascend toward Heaven, the lesser will the things on earth appear.
If you go to the top of the Mountains, men would appear but small: but if it were possible to go up to the Sun, the Mountains would appear nothing.
The love of Christ hath a raising-power, working our hearts as high as Heaven, and being there, all things here below are of no account and esteem to the soul. So saith Paul, a man on fire with the love of Christ. Yea doubtless I count all but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ — And do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, Phil 3.8.
Well then; they whose hearts are taken with the Creature, taken with the World, taken with sin and vanity: These are too gross to be taken with spiritual loves.