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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.
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.
1. In the Act of prizing Christ, that wee 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, wee do not mean a bare acts of Dijudication, what a man in his Judgement may conclude Christ to bee worth. Many bee, that will tell you, they conclude Christ to bee worth a World: who yet will not part with any thing for Christ.
But I mean such an act of the understanding, as brings up the Heart, and the affections to close with Christ in that height which the Understanding rates him at.
I say, such an Act of Appreciation as prevails with a man to do actions consonant and agreeable to the rate it pretends to set on Christ. As you see the wise Merchant. He did not barely judge that the Pearl was worth all he had: but he did Actions consonant and agreeable to it. Seeing he could not enjoy the Pearl without parting withal he had to compass it, he sells all to compass the Pearl.
I say, such an Act of Appretiation as prevails with a man to do actions consonant and agreeable to the rate it pretends to set on Christ. As you see the wise Merchant. Hee did not barely judge that the Pearl was worth all hee had: but hee did Actions consonant and agreeable to it. Seeing hee could not injoy the Pearl without parting withall hee had to compass it, hee sells all to compass the Pearl.