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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.
In the prosecution of this, we will show, 1 What Faith is. 2 That Faith is the great requisite. 3 Why God hath made choice of this to be the instrument of Justification. 4 How Faith doth justify, whether formally, or instrumentally. 5 What be the Royalties of Faith.
In the prosecution of this, wee will shew, 1 What Faith is. 2 That Faith is the great requisite. 3 Why God hath made choice of this to bee the instrument of Justification. 4 How Faith doth justifie, whether formally, or instrumentally. 5 What bee the Royalties of Faith.
1For the first, What Faith is, We will not define the habit of Faith, but the Act of Faith, nor every Act, but that only which justifieth. Now according to the diversity of opinions herein, such is the diversity of Definitions.
1For the first, What Faith is, Wee will not define the habit of Faith, but the Act of Faith, nor every Act, but that only which justifieth. Now according to the diversity of opinions herein, such is the diversity of Definitions.
- 11 What Faith is.
They who hold the Assent to be the Act of Justifying Faith, define it to be a firm and willing Assent to the truth of God in general, and to this truth in particular, that Christ is the Messiah and Saviour of the World. They who hold it to be a receiving of Christ, define it to be such an Act, as whereby we receive Christ in all his offices.