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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.
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.
3. You cannot have a more delightful subject. Christ is the delight of all both in Heaven and Earth. He is Gods delight; his heart is taken with him; he lies in his bosom. And his Son, in whom he is well pleased, he is the delight of the Angels, whose delight it is to study Christ, and desire to learn and hear further discoveries of Christ by his Church, as Peter hath it, 1 Pet. 1.12.
3. You cannot have a more delightfull subject. Christ is the delight of all both in Heaven and Earth. Hee is Gods delight; his heart is taken with him; hee lies in his bosome. And his Son, in whom hee is wel pleased, hee is the delight of the Angels, whose delight it is to study Christ, and desire to learn and hear further discoveries of Christ by his Church, as Peter hath it,