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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, 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, 1but what CHRIST himself (who was before all) hath taught, who is Truth himself.
- 1Nil refert quid hic, aut ille ante nos docuerit; sed quid is, qui ante omnes est, CHRISTUS. Ciprian.
So that, seeing this is not manifested, I might refel them with the same ease, as they are alleged.
So that, seeing this is not manifested, I might refel them with the same ease, as they are alledged.
But, seeing Authority is stood upon; And I reverence Authority, when it is with God.