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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.
And therefore, as their Non-Receiving of him, was not so much an Act of the Understanding, whereby they Assented not to this, That CHRIST was the Messiah: But rather an Act of the VVill, whereby they refused him to be their Saviour. As you see plainly expressed by CHRIST, Luk. 19.14. — we will not have this man to reign over us. So Mat. 23.37.
And therefore, as their Non-Receiving of him, was not so much an Act of the Understanding, whereby they Assented not to this, That CHRIST was the Messiah: But rather an Act of the VVill, whereby they refused him to bee their Saviour. As you see plainly exprest by CHRIST, Luk. 19.14. — wee will not have this man to reign over us. So Mat. 23.37.
So that their Receiving of him was not a bare Act of the Understanding, whereby they Assented to this, That CHRIST was the Saviour: But an act of the VVill, whereby they chose him, embraced him, rested and trusted upon him as a Saviour.
And therefore, seeing this Act of Receiving of CHRIST, is not an act of the Understanding; but an act of the VVill embracing him, trusting on him: And that this Receiving is Believing, as the Evangelist saith.
And therefore, seeing this Act of Receiving of CHRIST, is not an act of the Understanding; but an act of the VVill imbracing him, trusting on him: And that this Receiving is Beleeving, as the Evangelist saith.