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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.
By what Faith? The Speculative act of Faith?
No sure: This doth no more unite the soul to Christ, than the sight of the Sun, doth draw a man up to heaven.
By what Faith then? But by this act of Trusting, Resting, Leaning, &c.
Hence Augustine—To believe in Christ, 1is by believing to go into Christ, and to be incorporate into his body; which the Papists themselves will not say, is done By a bare act of the understanding.
- 1Credere in Deum, est credendo, in Deum ire.