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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.
Whiles the soul is here, it sees the distance too great betwixt Christ and it, that she cannot enjoy that sweet communion with him. As the Apostle saith. Whiles we are present in the flesh, we are absent from the Lord. And therefore the soul breaths after him, desires to be with him. Cupio dissolvi, saith the Apostle, I desire ⟨p. 86⟩to be dissolved, and to be with Christ.
Whiles the soul is here, it sees the distance too great betwixt Christ and it, that shee cannot injoy that sweet communion with him. As the Apostle saith. Whiles wee are present in the flesh, wee are absent from the Lord. And therefore the soul breaths after him, desires to bee with him. Cupio dissolvi, saith the Apostle, I desire ⟨p. 86⟩to bee dissolved, and to bee with Christ.
The like of David, Psal. 42.1, 2. As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks; so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God! He had tasted the sweetness of Christ, and did not fear the bitterness of death.
The like of David, Psal. 42.1, 2. As the Hart panteth after the water-brooks; so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God! Hee had tasted the sweetness of Christ, and did not fear the bitterness of death.