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. VIII. [§. 8] Three things thirsted after by him, that is, as the Spouse here hath tasted any thing of the Life of God.
TEll me: There be three things that every soul, that hath tasted any thing of the heavenly Life, thirst∣eth after.
The first is, To have the everlasting Love of the Lord to be revealed to him, which is better to him then life it self, better then all things.
Secondly, To see a love from the Lord, a fire from Heaven falling in our hearts, and kindling an everlasting flame of heavenly love in us to him again, that from a coal from his Al∣tar we may be all a fire of love with him, that the zeal and love we have to the Lord may eat us up.
Thirdly, That the love wherewith God loves us, and the love wherewith we love God, we may also be taught to love one another, & all these three loves
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may thus agree in one; we should not then be angry at our mothers children without a cause, and hate them, but love and pitty them.
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