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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 5: 5. 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.
5. Sign.
An heart taken with Christ hath high appreciations and valuations of Christ. It values and esteems him above all the comforts and contentments in Heaven and Earth, Psal. 73, 25. Whom have I in Heaven, but thee! and in the Earth, in comparison of thee! Here is the breathing of a soul taken with Christ. He prizeth Christ above all the comforts and contents in the World.
An heart taken with Christ hath high appretiations and valuations of Christ. It values and esteems him above all the comforts and contentments in Heaven and Earth, Psal. 73, 25. Whom have I in Heaven, but thee! and in the Earth, in comparison of thee! Here is the breathing of a soul taken with Christ. Hee prizeth Christ above all the comforts and contents in the World.
For the better unfolding of this sign, there is 1. Something considerable in the Act. 2. Something in the Object — Christ prized. 3. Something in the Measure — above all the comforts, contents, &c.
1. In the Act of prizing Christ, that we do not mean a bare and naked Estimate of Christ, in the Understanding: but such an one as prevails with the soul, and commands the spirit of a man to do actions consonant and agreeable to that rate the Judgement set on Christ. I say, by prizing of Christ, we do not mean a bare acts of Dijudication, what a man in his Judgement may conclude Christ to be worth. Many be, that will tell you, they conclude Christ to be worth a World: who yet will not part with any thing for Christ.