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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.
We know, that while we are here, differences there will be, for we know in part, and prophesy but in part. It were an happy thing if we could be all of one heart, and all of one mind, but seeing it will not be. I could wish that although we be not all of one mind, yet we might be all of one heart, and that difference in judgement, might not breed alienation in affection, especially seeing we all aim at one thing, one mark, one end. All agree in hoc uno, in this one, to set up Christ, the mercy of God, free grace, and by crying down our selves, and why then should we not agree amongst our selves?
Wee know, that while wee are here, differences there will bee, for wee know in part, and prophesy but in part. It were an happy •hing if wee could bee all of one heart, and all of one mind, but seeing it will not bee. I could wish that although wee bee not all of one mind, yet wee might bee all of one heart, and that difference in judgement, might not breed alienation in affection, especially seeing wee all aime at one thing, one mark, one end. All agree in hoc uno, in this one, to set up Christ, the mercy of God, free grace, and by crying down our selves, and why then should wee not agree amongst our selves?
And therefore in all these diversities of Judgements concerning the formal Act of Faith, whereby we stand justified before God. I shall not deal so much in the throwing down of other mens opinions, as in the establishing of mine own.
And therefore in all these diversities of Judgements concerning the formal Act of Faith, whereby wee stand justified before God. I shall not deal so much in the throwing down of other mens opinions, as in the establishing of mine own.