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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.
Whereas now a true faith, is as careful to do its services, as to partake of its privileges; if it throw it self into the arms of Christ, to save it; it will throw it self at the feet of Christ, to serve him, as Paul, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
Whereas now a true faith, is as careful to do its services, as to partake of its priviledges; if it throw it self into the arms of Christ, to save it; it will throw it self at the feet of Christ, to serve him, as Paul, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
3. It must be such a Trust, as ariseth from a believing disposition within: There must be a seed and habit of faith, before there can be an act of faith: Although the acts be discerned before the habits, yet there must be a habit, a believing disposition within, before we can act. I know there are many, who in case of danger, lying upon their death bed, or some present wrack and disquiet, will make show of doing this act of faith; but yet wanting this believing disposition within, like Jonahs Gourd, or the untimely fruit of a woman, or the stony ground-seed, having no root, soon withers, decays, and cometh to nothing. God respecteth not the act of faith, if it arise not from a believing disposition within; but God hath sometimes accepted of the believing disposition and desires of faith, when there hath not been strength enough to erect any vigorous act of believing: I believe, help my unbelief.
3. It must be such a Trust, as ariseth from a believing disposition within: There must be a seed and habit of faith, before there can be an act of faith: Although the acts be discerned before the habits, yet there must be a habit, a believing disposition within, before we can act. I know there are many, who in case of danger, lying upon their death bed, or some present wrack and disquiet, will make shew of doing this act of faith; but yet wanting this believing disposition within, like Jonahs Gourd, or the untimely fruit of a woman, or the stony ground-seed, having no root, soon withers, decays, and cometh to nothing. God respecteth not the act of faith, if it arise not from a believing disposition within; but God hath sometimes accepted of the believing disposition and desires of faith, when there hath not been strength enough to erect any vigorous act of believing: I believe, help my unbelief.