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The signs or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods love, and mans salvation…The signes or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods loue, and mans saluation…
The signs or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods love, and mans salvation gathered out of the holy Scriptures. By Nicholas Byfield, one of the preachers for the city of Chester.The signes or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods loue, and mans saluation gathered out of the holy Scriptures. By Nicholas Byfield, one of the preachers for the citty of Chester.
London: printed by John Beale for Jonah Man, 1614London: printed by Iohn Beale for Ionas Man, 1614
A SHORT Treatise concerning Assurance. › Section 5: 5. Faith.
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.
Faith may be tried. 1. By the Cause. 2. By the Properties. 3. By the Concomitants. 4. By the effects.
For the first, true faith cometh by the hearing of the word ⟨p. 58⟩preached: It is no natural endowment, nor gotten by natural helps; But first is wrought by the Holy Ghost, in the preaching of the Gospel, as is plain by the Apostle. How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard,1 and how shall they hear without a Preacher.
For the first, true faith commeth by the hearing of the word ⟨p. 58⟩preached: It is no naturall endowment, nor gotten by naturall helpes; But first is wrought by the holyghost, in the preaching of the Gospell, as is plaine by the Apostle. How shal they beleeue in him of whom they haue not heard,1 and how shall they heare without a Preacher.
Secondly, there are 6. properties of faith.