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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.
If thy trust be thus qualified, I pronounce thee a justified person; no soul ever miscarried in a trusting way, it is such an act as doth engage all the Attributes of God, his Justice, Truth, Mercy, Power, and all to do us good.
If thy trust be thus qualified, I pronounce thee a justified person; no soul ever miscarried in a trusting way, it is such an act as doth ingage all the Attributes of God, his Justice, Truth, Mercy, Power, and all to do us good.
Object. 2. But I have put forth this act of faith, and yet, alas, I am not justified.
Answ. Thou sayest thou puts forth this act of faith, and thus qualified, and yet thou sayest thou art not justified. How knowest thou that? Thou sayest thou art not, because thou dost not know thou art, I know that will be the next. For thus poor hearts reason to their own discouragement. I want assurance of Justification, therefore I am not justified; I want that inward peace, and therefore fear my peace is not made with God. Though there be nothing more clear than this, that a man may have peace with God, and yet want the peace of this in himself; it is possible for a man to be justified, and yet want assurance of it within. Affiance, doth justify in the Court of God; Assurance justifieth in the Court of Conscience; to be justified is one thing, to be assured is another.
Answ. Thou sayest thou puts forth this act of faith, and thus qualified, and yet thou sayest thou art not justified. How knowest thou that? Thou sayest thou art not, because thou dost not know thou art, I know that will be the next. For thus poor hearts reason to their own discouragement. I want assurance of Justification, therefore I am not justified; I want that inward peace, and therefore fear my peace is not made with God. Though there be nothing more clear than this, that a man may have peace with God, and yet want the peace of this in himself; it is possible for a man to be justified, and yet want assurance of it within. Affiance, doth justifie in the Court of God; Assurance justifieth in the Court of Conscience; to be justified is one thing, to be assured is another.