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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.
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.
They who hold the Assent to bee the Act of Justifying Faith, define it to bee a firm and willing Assent to the truth of God in generall, and to this truth in particular, that Christ is the Messiah and Saviour of the World. They who hold it to bee a receiving of Christ, define it to bee such an Act, as whereby wee receive Christ in all his offices.
But not to trouble you with these. That which I will give you is this.