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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.
As we say of Faith; it doth not eligere Objectum, it doth not choose its Object, single out what it will esteem, and what not: but prizeth of Christ fully in the latitude and extent of Christ, of Christ in his Person, Christ in his Beauties, Christ in his Laws, in his Holiness, Truth, Government: And so highly, that they sold themselves to gain a Truth; lost themselves to save a Truth: They have made this brave adventure, thrown away themselves, that they might keep up a Truth; as you see it in Queen Mary's days, in point of Transubstantiation. So that is the second. The soul taken with Christ is taken with All-Christ. As all in him is lovely: so the soul loves all; and prizes and esteems of all of Christ.
As wee say of Faith; it doth not eligere Objectum, it doth not chuse its Object, single out what it will esteem, and what not: but prizeth of Christ fully in the latitude and extent of Christ, of Christ in his Person, Christ in his Beauties, Christ in his Laws, in his Holiness, Truth, Government: And so highly, that they sold themselves to gain a Truth; lost themselves to save a Truth: They have made this brave adventure, thrown away themselves, that they might keep up a Truth; as you see it in Queen Maries daies, in point of Transubstantiation. So that is the second. The soul taken with Christ is taken with All-Christ. As all in him is lovely: so the soul loves all; and prizes and esteems of all of Christ.
3. That which is considerable in the Measure is, That a soul taken with Christ, doth prize Christ above all comforts and contents in Heaven and Earth.
This Christ commands, Mat. 16.24. If any man will come after me, let him deny himself. If any] It is set down indefinitely. Not only you, who are poor, and have little to lose, and deny your selves in: but they, who have most. You that are rich, you that have lands, possessions, have Crowns and Sceptres. If any poor, any rich, any beggar, any Prince, &c.