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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.
1 The Act of Faith, that is not before the Habit of Faith; a thing must bee in esse before it can be in operari, there must be a Habit of Faith within, before there can be the exercise of Faith without.
1 The Act of Faith, that is not before the Habit of Faith; a thing must bee in esse before it can bee in operari, there must bee a Habit of Faith within, before there can bee the exercise of Faith without.
2 And this Habit of Faith is not infused before other graces, it being part of our inherent Sanctification, as infidelity is a part of our corruption, nor is it again infused alone, but together with the rest of the graces of Gods Spirit, by which we are regenerated. ⟨p. 47⟩So that Faith is an Act of a regenerated soul.
2 And this Habit of Faith is not infused before other graces, it being part of our inherent Sanctification, as infidelity is a part of our corruption, nor is it again infused alone, but together with the rest of the graces of Gods Spirit, by which wee are regenerated. ⟨p. 47⟩So that Faith is an Act of a regenerated soul.
A man cannot believe till his understanding be enlightened, and his will changed, and this is not before Grace.
A man cannot beleeve till his understanding bee enlightened, and his will changed, and this is not before Grace.