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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.
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.
It was the speech of Augustine, Lord, I will dye, that I may injoy 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.
- 1Eja Domine, mortar ut te videam, nolo vivere, Volo mori.
And this disposition you see in the Spouse here. Her heart being taken with Christ, she could not brook the distance betwixt Christ and her; and therefore cries out, Cant. 8.1