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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, 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.
Therefore To believe is to trust.
Therefore To beleeve is to trust.
To the other places, Isa. 53.11. & John 17.3. where Faith seems to be an act of the Understanding. As — By his Knowledge shall he justify many. And — This is eternal life. To know thee, &c.
To the other places, Isa. 53.11. & John 17.3. where Faith seems to bee an act of the Understanding. As — By his Knowledge shall hee justifie many. And — This is eternal life. To know thee, &c.