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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. › Sign 3: 3. Sign.
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.
What the heart is taken withal, the soul seems to live more in it, than in it self. Do but examine it in any thing the heart is ⟨p. 80⟩taken withal; whether your comforts, your delights, your happiness lies not in them. The Worldling he lives in his possessions. The Voluptuous man in his pleasures. And can no more live out of them, than the Fish out of the water, the Salamander out of fire. So here. If thy heart be taken with Christ, then thou livest more in Christ, than thou doest in thy self. I live, yet not I, but Christ, saith the Apostle, Gal. 2.20. Thou canst no more subsist without him, than the Beam without the Sun: than the spark without the fire. Nay, no more live without him, than the body without meat, nay, the body without the soul. Christ is to the soul, as the soul is to the body. Now as the body cannot live without the soul: So the soul cannot live but in Christ, who is Anima Animae, the Soul of the Soul, for me to live is Christ.
What the heart is taken withall, the soul seems to live more in it, than in it self. Do but examine it in any thing the heart is ⟨p. 80⟩taken withall; whether your comforts, your delights, your happiness lies not in them. The Worldling hee lives in his possessions. The Voluptuous man in his pleasures. And can no more live out of them, than the Fish out of the water, the Salamander out of fire. So here. If thy heart bee taken with Christ, then thou livest more in Christ, than thou doest in thy self. I live, yet not I, but Christ, saith the Apostle, Gal. 2.20. Thou canst no more subsist without him, than the Beam without the Sun: than the spark without the fire. Nay, no more live without him, than the body without meat, nay, the body without the soul. Christ is to the soul, as the soul is to the body. Now as the body cannot live without the soul: So the soul cannot live but in Christ, who is Anima Animae, the Soul of the Soul, for mee to live is Christ.