A28620:969
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.
6. Sign.
An heart taken with Christ, thirsts after communion with, and nearer conjunction to Christ. You know whatever your hearts are taken withal, you desire, and thirst after communion, and converses withal. So it is here betwixt Christ and the soul. The soul taken with Christ longs to be with him, and thirsts after communion with him.
An heart taken with Christ, thirsts after communion with, and nearer conjunction to Christ. You know whatever your hearts are taken withall, you desire, and thirst after communion, and converses withall. So it is here betwixt Christ and the soul. The soul taken with Christ longs to bee with him, and thirsts after communion with him.
1. In Grace here. 2. In Glory hereafter.
1. In Grace here. Oh! How the soul once taken with Christ desires converses with him, in prayer, in hearing, in meditation, Isa. 26.8, 9. The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea with my spirit within me will I seek thee early. And this is the Genius of a soul taken with Christ: that duty doth not content him, if he find not Christ in duty. If the end of a duty have left him on this side Christ, it hath left him so far short of comfort.