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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.
4 The fourth thing in the Definition, is the fruit which cometh in, or the end of this Act, and that is, 1 Next and immediate. Justification and pardon of sin. 2 Mediate. Sanctification and growth in grace. 3 Ultimate. The Perfection of all in Glorification.
But here some may object,
Object. 1. First, there are many who do trust, and yet are not justified: many who profess that they do this act, but yet live in their sins, as Balaam, &c. Therefore this is not the justifying Act.
Ans. I answer, That although every one say he trusteth, yet every one doth not truly trust, for there is a double affiance or trust. The one is a slight and superficial affiance, grounded upon no other foundation than a great apprehension, that it is good to be saved by Christ, but yet so as neither to leave their old course, or embrace a new. The other is a settled and grounded affiance, and so qualified, as that it is not to be found in any not truly justified, if it be, I shall yield the cause.
Ans. I answer, That although every one say hee trusteth, yet every one doth not truly trust, for there is a double affiance or trust. The one is a slight and superficial affiance, grounded upon no other foundation than a great apprehension, that it is good to bee saved by Christ, but yet so as neither to leave their old course, or imbrace a new. The other is a setled and grounded affiance, and so qualified, as that it is not to bee found in any not truly justified, if it bee, I shall yield the cause.