The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Name: The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657

[34], 420 [i.e. 455], [2] p. : port. · 221k words · Wing B3518 · ESTC R7007

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A TREATISE OF THE NATURE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Whosoever believeth.A TREATISE OF THE NATƲRE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Whosoever believeth.

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.

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Now about the Act and the Object, we shall make these two enquiries, before we come to lay down the Conclusion.

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1. What act of faith that is, whereby a sinner stands justified before God?

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2. Upon what Object this Act is to be terminated?

:1148p. 42¶1

1. For the first, What Act that is? You must know, that faith in the general consideration, hath divers acts and objects, and that the acts are diversified, according to the diversity of the objects: so many particulars as are recorded in Scripture, so many particular objects; and accordingly so many particular acts there are of faith in general. But our enquiry is, what is the formal Act and Object of justifying faith?

:1149p. 42

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