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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. It is a holy Trust: Jude, v. 20. Build up one another in your holy faith; not as though holiness were required as an ingredient into faith, in the act of Justification, or giving us our first interest in Christ; but this I mean, by a holy trust, that it is such a trust as is accompanied with holiness in the root, and brings forth works of holiness in the fruit; such a faith as is accompanied with holiness in the heart, and declared in the holiness of our lives: For although it be fides sola, faith alone which justifieth, and gives us the first interest in Christ; yet it is not fides quae sola & solitaria, it is not a faith which is alone, but such a faith as is accompanied with holiness in the root, the graces of Gods Spirit, and holiness in the life.
The faith which doth justify us, is not in formis, but formata; not a dead faith, but animated and quickened with grace and holiness, the whole man being sanctified.
The faith which doth justifie us, is not in formis, but formata; not a dead faith, but animated and quickned with grace and holiness, the whole man being sanctified.
2. It must be an unfeigned Trust, 1 Tim. 1.5. 2 Tim. 1.5. There is a counterfeit and hypocritical Trust, such as never comes to God from love, but for shelter in a storm, Psal. 78.34, 35, 36. When he slew them, then they sought him, and yet did but flatter, &c.