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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.
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.
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 finde 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; hee keeps doors open, spreads a Table for them, makes them a bed, bids them welcome: But in a godly man they crowd in, and finde no entertainment.
And as the Thoughts are taken up with Christ, so the Tongue. He thinks, and he speaks Christ. When Christ is in the heart, the tongue will discourse and speak of him. Whatever is in the heart, and the heart is taken withal, that a mans discourse is most taken up withal. As Psal. 37.30. The mouth of the Righteous speaketh wisdom, and his Tongue talketh of Judgement. And why? because the Law of his God is in his heart, vers. 31. So here on the same ground. Thy talk shall be of Christ, of his beauties, his love, &c. because Christ is in thy heart. What the heart is taken withal, the Tongue will discourse on.