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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.
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.
8. Sign. A heart taken with Christ is exceedingly cast down with the withdrawings and absence of Christ.
The comforts of the soul are laid up in Christ: and when he is gone, all is gone. Comfort gone, Joy gone, the Heart gone with him.
The comforts of the soul are laid up in Christ: and when hee is gone, all is gone. Comfort gone, Joy gone, the Heart gone with him.
As Mephibosheth said; Take all, now my Lord is come back: so the soul saith, Take all, take the World, take Riches, take Heaven, and Glory, so far as Heaven and thou are two things. That my Lord may return with my soul. Darkness is terrible to the soul, and this is thick darkness, and therefore saith with Absalom, let me see his face, mea non prosunt sine te, nothing besides thee, can either satisfy or profit me.
As Mephibosheth said; Take all, now my Lord is come back: so the soul saith, Take all, take the World, take Riches, take Heaven, and Glory, so far as Heaven and thou are two things. That my Lord may return with my soul. Datkness is terrible to the soul, and this is thick darkness, and therefore saith with Absolom, let mee see his face, mea non prosunt sine te, nothing besides thee, can either satisfie or profit mee.