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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.
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.
Indeed Gods people may have swarms of other thoughts; but they are not entertained, they are not welcome to them; they are their burden, and trouble. They come in as Intruders, and are not entertained as Guests. A wicked man entertains them as Guests, as friends; but they come into a godly man, as intruders, never invited, nor find they welcome. This is that Jeremiah speaks.1 How long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee? in a wicked mans heart they are Lodgers, and entertained as Guests; he keeps doors open, spreads a Table for them, makes them a bed, bids them welcome: But in a godly man they crowd in, and find no entertainment.