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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.
Though in one sense it is true; he that believes makes not haste; yet here he that believes most, and loves most, makes most haste.
Though in one sense it is true; hee that beleeves makes not haste; yet here hee that beleeves most, and loves most, makes most haste.
The more the soul believes, and the more the heart is taken with Christ, the greater are the desires to be with him.
The more the soul beleeves, and the more the heart is taken with Christ, the greater are the desires to bee with him.
Till Simeon had gotten Christ into his arms, he was unwilling to dye: but after he had Christ in his arms; Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen thy salvation.
Till Simeon had gotten Christ into his armes, hee was unwilling to dye: but after hee had Christ in his armes; Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen thy salvation.