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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.
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.
The second, Brings the Soul over to Christ, by an act of Trust, whereby a man is justified.
By the first, we do but Discover the Justifying-Cause, the Fountain of Life, Christ himself.
By the first, we do but Discover the Justifying-Cause, the Founain of Life, Christ himself.