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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.
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.
The Heaven, which carnal men do fancy is a Turkish-Heaven, an heaven of pleasures, delights, comforts, but fleshly, outward. They conceive of it, according to their Principle.
The Heaven, which carnal men do fansy is a Turkish-Heaven, an heaven of pleasures, delights, comforts, but fleshly, outward. They conceive of it, according to their Principle.