The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler.

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The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler.
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Butler, Thomas, Captain.
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London :: Printed in the first year of England liberty, 1649 for Giles Calvert, at the blackspread Eagle at the west end of Pauls,
[1649]
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Christian literature -- Early works to 1800.
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"The little Bible of the man or the Book of God opened in man by the power of the Lamb. Wherein God is the spirit or inside of the book, and man the letter or out-side of it. In whom, as in a glass, you may both behold the spirit and letter of the holy Scriptures in the new man; fulfilled and explained from Genesis to Jeremiah. This is the first volume of Gods Book in man. Written by a weak instrument of the Lords, Capt. T. Butler." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A78070.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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SECT. XLII. [§. 42] There is no spot in her, she is all fair, yea altogether lovely.

THere is no spot in her, that is, she is all light, and in her is no sin nor darkness at alll, being all light in the Lord; the chains of her neck ra∣vishes the Soul of Christ, being such a Pearl of heavenly Truth. Thy love like wine, and the smell of thy ointments like spices: This is all sweet and graci∣ous Spirit, ministring Grace to the beholders. Thy lips drop the hony, the hony and milk are under thy tongue. This shews a right dividing of the Word of Truth, milk to babes, hony

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to stronger, and bread to the strongest. And the smell of thy garments like the smell of Lebanon: Such a sanctified and perfumed Conversation hath she. A garden enclosed, a spring shut up, a foun∣tain sealed; that is indeed, a garden planted by the Lord, and watered and increased by him, enclosed all by his goodness, as a wall of fire about it, a spring that shall spring up, and shut from the Philistins to corrupt it, and such a fountain of Grace therein seal∣ed, that it shall not tend unto wanton∣ness not uncleanness; yea, what hea∣venly pleasant plants are in thee; a well of living waters, the Spirit flow∣ing forth in them.

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