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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 so may that place in Isa. 53.11. be interpreted.1 It doth not only signify the knowledge of the person, and benefits of Christ; but resting and trusting upon them; Such a Knowledge of Christ, as is mingled with Faith, and works our Wills to accept of CHRIST, to trust in him. CHRIST, being So known, (as to be Embraced, Rested upon, Trusted upon) shall justify many. He speaks of such a Knowledge of CHRIST as is joined with Faith.
And so may that place in Isa. 53.11. bee interpreted.1 It doth not only signifie the knowledge of the person, and benefits of Christ; but resting and trusting upon them; Such a Knowledge of Christ, as is mingled with Faith, and works our Wills to accept of CHRIST, to trust in him. CHRIST, being So known, (as to bee Embraced, Rested upon, Trusted upon) shall justifie many. Hee speaks of such a Knowledge of CHRIST as is joyned with Faith.
- 1Non solum agnitionem Personae, & beneficiorum Christi significat; sed etiam Fiduciam quiescentem in Christi.
And, to the Testimony of the Fathers alleged. As we will not Resolve our Faith into the Authority of any, though never so eminent in the Church: So, No Authority shall bear us down in this matter, if it be not Consentaneous, and Agreeable to the Word of Truth. It is no matter what others have taught before us, 1but what CHRIST himself (who was before all) hath taught, who is Truth himself.
And, to the Testimony of the Fathers alledged. As wee will not Resolve our Faith into the Authority of any, though never so eminent in the Church: So, No Authority shall bear us down in this matter, if it bee not Consentaneous, and Agreeable to the Word of Truth. It is no matter what others have taught before us,