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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.
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 ⟨p. 84⟩discoveries do arise afresh to bee matter of supply to all eternity.
2. You cannot have a sweeter subject. Christ is All-sweet: A Rose without prickles. A Rose, for sweetness: without prickles, for content. And nothing is so but Christ. All the things of the world since the fall, have been Roses beset with thorns. Though there be many sweets in the World; yet they are not all-sweet; they are beset with thorns: crosses with comforts, and afflictions with affections. Christ is All-sweet, and nothing but sweet. Tota pulchra, as he said of his Spouse. Thou art all-fair. Beauty without spot. Sweet without prickles. He is a Garden full of flowers, full of sweets. You can light of none but you may lade your thighs, and go home satisfied.
2. You cannot have a sweeter subject. Christ is All-sweet: A Rose without prickles. A Rose, for sweetness: without prickles, for content. And nothing is so but Christ. All the things of the world since the fall, have been Roses beset with thorns. Though there bee many sweets in the World; yet they are not all-sweet; they are beset with thorns: crosses with comforts, and afflictions with affections. Christ is All-sweet, and nothing but sweet. Tota pulchra, as hee said of his Spouse. Thou art all-fair. Beauty without spot. Sweet without prickles. Hee is a Garden full of flowers, full of sweets. You can light of none but you may lade your thighs, and go home satisfied.