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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.
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.
1He had Life in Patience; Death in Desire; because by death he should be carried to more sweet and intimate conjunction with Christ.
1Hee had Life in Patience; Death in Desire; because by death hee should bee carried to more sweet and intimate conjunction with Christ.
- 1Vitam in Patientia; mortem in Desiderio.
It was the speech of Augustine, Lord, I will dye, that I may enjoy thee. 1I will not live, but I will dye. I desire to dye, that I may see Christ; and refuse to live, that I may live with Christ.