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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.
Now to explain this Definition.
1 I say, that Faith is an Act; for we speak not of Faith in actu primo, as an habit infused, and implanted in us, but in actu secundo, as an Act whereby we are justified, for we are not justified by Faith as an habit, or as a grace inherent in us, but (as I said) by Faith as an Act, as it goeth over to Christ; as we see here the Promise is not made to the Habit, but to the Act of Faith. He that believeth, &c. That is the first, I call it an Act,
1 I say, that Faith is an Act; for wee speak not of Faith in actu primo, as an habit infused, and implanted in us, but in actu secundo, as an Act whereby wee are justified, for wee are not justified by Faith as an habit, or as a grace inherent in us, but (as I said) by Faith as an Act, as it goeth over to Christ; as wee see here the Promise is not made to the Habit, but to the Act of Faith. Hee that beleeveth, &c. That is the first, I call it an Act,
2 The subject person, so it is said to be an Act of a regenerate person, a man universally sanctified, regenerated and born again; for take Faith which way you please, for the Act or for the Habit, neither of them are before Regeneration.
2 The subject person, so it is said to bee an Act of a regenerate person, a man universally sanctified, regenerated and born again; for take Faith which way you please, for the Act or for the Habit, neither of them are before Regeneration.