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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.
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.
But we speak not of Faith in general, but of justifying Faith, of that formal act of Faith, whereby we stand justified before God. And here we say, that—Faith is not an act of the understanding only, but of the will also.
But we speak not of Faith in general, but of justifying Faith, of that formal act of Faith, whereby we stand justified before God. And here we say, that—Faith is not an act of the understanding onely, but of the will also.
The first: It is Too Low: Non pertingit ad justificationem; as one saith, It reacheth not so high as Justification.