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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.
He must deny himself] Not only in things unlawful, but lawful. He must yield up his sins as a snare; his comforts, estate, and all as a Sacrifice for Christ, if he call for them, Mat. 10.37. He that loves Father or Mother more than me, is not worthy of me. These relations are expressed: but under these are comprised all the comforts and contents on earth.
Hee must deny himself] Not only in things unlawfull, but lawfull. Hee must yeeld up his sins as a snare; his comforts, estate, and all as a Sacrifice for Christ, if hee call for them, Mat. 10.37. Hee that loves Father or Mother more than mee, is not worthy of mee. These relations are expressed: but under these are comprized all the comforts and contents on earth.
And this was not only commanded, but it is practised by those, whose hearts are taken with Christ. You see in Abraham, who left all; in Moses, who prized more of the reproach of Christ, than all the treasures in Egypt; in David, Psal. 73.25. Whom have I in Heaven but thee! or in Earth, in comparison of thee!
As the World would be nothing else but Angiae stabulum; a noisome sink, a prison to a godly man, were it not that he enjoys something of Christ here: So Heaven it self were but a gaudy Pageant, Vanity, if God and Christ were not there.
As the World would bee nothing else but Angiae stabulum; a noisome sink, a prison to a godly man, were it not that hee injoys something of Christ here: So Heaven it self were but a gaudy Pageant, Vanity, if God and Christ were not there.