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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 6: 6. 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.
An heart taken with Christ, the thoughts are taken up with Christ.
Such a man he thinks Christ, and he speaks Christ, he lives Christ.
Such a man hee thinks Christ, and hee speaks Christ, hee lives Christ.
You know whatever a mans heart is taken with, it is never off his thoughts, never off his heart, he is never well but thinking and speaking of that he loves. The thoughts are the character of what the heart is taken withal. If thy heart be taken with Christ, thy thoughts are taken up with him. Christ is always upon thy thoughts; he lies next to thy heart; when thou goest to bed he is with thee, Cant. 1.13. and when thou awakest he is with thee; as David saith, Psal. 139.18.
You know whatever a mans heart is taken with, it is never off his thoughts, never off his heart, hee is never well but thinking and speaking of that hee loves. The thoughts are the character of what the heart is taken withall. If thy heart bee taken with Christ, thy thoughts are taken up with him. Christ is alwayes upon thy thoughts; hee lies next to thy heart; when thou goest to bed hee is with thee, Cant. 1.13. and when thou awakest hee is with thee; as David saith, Psal. 139.18.