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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.
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.
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 alledge the testimony of the Greek Fathers; which make Faith, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: 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.
Answ. Now, for Answer of this, we must know, that
1. To Believe: In the general, is no more, than to assent to the truth of a Proposition for the Authority of the Speaker. It is no more than An act of the understanding, whereby we Assent to the truth of Divine Revelations.