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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.
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.
And as the Thoughts are taken up with Christ, so the Tongue. Hee thinks, and hee 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 withall, that a mans discourse is most taken up withall. As Psal. 37.30. The mouth of the Righteous speaketh wisdome, 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 bee of Christ, of his beauties, his love, &c. because Christ is in thy heart. What the heart is taken withall, the Tongue will discourse on.
1. And indeed we cannot have a fuller Subject to discourse on. Other Subjects they are empty subjects, quickly barren. Talk of what you will, you will be quickly at an end. The bottom of other things are quickly sounded. But Christ is a full Subject. (Whatever you fall upon, is fullness in Christ.) An everlasting spring, which affordeth fresh supplies of matter. New and unconceivable ⟨p. 84⟩discoveries do arise afresh to be matter of supply to all eternity.
1. And indeed wee cannot have a fuller Subject to discourse on. Other Subjects they are empty subjects, quickly barren. Talk of what you will, you will bee quickly at an end. The bottome of other things are quickly sounded. But Christ is a full Subject. (Whatever you fall upon, is fulness in Christ.) An everlasting spring, which affordeth fresh supplies of matter. New and unconceiveable