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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.
For answer to this place, we say, That this word Receiving, doth not only denote the understanding, but implies the will also. Which will appear by this one Reason, among many.
For answer to this place, we say, That this word Receiving, doth not onely denote the understanding, but implies the will also. Which will appear by this one Reason, among many.
That Receiving is to be understood, which is opposed to the Jews not receiving of him. For, having said in Verse 11—He came to his own, and his own received him not. Immediately is added— But as many as did receive him, to them he gave power to become the sons of God: So that the matter of Inquiry will be, How the Jews did not receive him.
Was it then only in this, Their not assenting that he was the Messiah? or, Rejecting him, and Refusing him for a Saviour?
Was it then onely in this, Their not assenting that he was the Messias? or, Rejecting him, and Refusing him for a Saviour?