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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.
Object. 3. But (say some) To believe is an act of the understanding, and is nothing else, but an Assent to the truth of Divine Revelations; which is expressed in Scripture, By receiving of Christ, John 1.12—To as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God: even to as many as believe in his name. Where receiving of Christ (which, say they, is An act of the understanding assenting to this truth, That Christ is the Messiah, and Saviour of the world) is made all one with Believing. And so, Isa. 53.11—By his knowledge (Notitiâ sui, not, suâ:) By the knowledge of him, shall my righteous servant justify many: which knowing is an act of the understanding also.
Object. 3. But (say some) To believe is an act of the understanding, and is nothing else, but an Assent to the truth of Divine Revelations; which is expressed in Scripture, By receiving of Christ, John 1.12—To as many as received him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God: even to as many as believe in his name. Where receiving of Christ (which, say they, is An act of the understanding assenting to this truth, That Christ is the Messias, and Saviour of the world) is made all one with Believing. And so, Isa. 53.11—By his knowledge (Notitiâ sui, not, suâ:) By the knowledge of him, shall my righteous servant justifie many: which knowing is an act of the understanding also.
The like, John 17.3—This is life Eternal, To know thee, &c. All which places do report thus much, That Faith is an act of the understanding, not of the will. And to this they allege the testimony of the Greek Fathers; which make Faith, [Greek or Hebrew]: An undoubted Assent to the Doctrine of Salvation; and to this Proposition in particular, That Christ is the Messiah. So that by all this, it is clear (to them) that Faith is an act of the understanding, not of the will: But now Trust is an act of the will, and therefore cannot be the formal act of justifying Faith.