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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.

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2. For the formal object of faith, and that not of faith at large, for so the word of God is the objectum adaequatum of it; but as it is particularly justifying faith, quatenus justificat, as it properly justifieth; which is not the believing of every truth of God, but that only which by way of eminency, is called, The Truth, that is, Christ himself, with all his merits, John 14.6. and so here in the Text, He that believeth in him: Hence justifying faith, is often called the Faith of Christ, because he is the proper object of it, Rom. 3:22 26. Gal. 2.16.20. And faith in Christ, Acts 20.21. and Faith in the blood of Christ: Whence I thus argue:

2. For the formal object of faith, and that not of faith at large, for so the word of God is the objectum adaequatum of it; but as it is particularly justifying faith, quatenus justificat, as it properly justifieth; which is not the believing of every truth of God, but that onely which by way of eminency, is called, The Truth, that is, Christ himself, with all his merits, John 14.6. and so here in the Text, He that believeth in him: Hence justifying faith, is often called the Faith of Christ, because he is the proper object of it, Rom. 3:22 26. Gal. 2.16.20. And faith in Christ, Acts 20.21. and Faith in the blood of Christ: Whence I thus argue:

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That Object to the Belief, of which justification and salvation is promised, that is the Object of justifying faith.

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