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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 that Authority doth make Faith nothing, but An Act of the Understanding, whereby we assent.
And that Authority doth make Faith nothing, but An Act of the Understanding, whereby wee assent.
We will in the same way overthrow that, by setting Authority against Authority; Weight against Weight: That, if nothing will be said for us? so nothing may be said against us. One may balance the other; if not weigh it down.
Wee will in the same way overthrow that, by setting Authority against Authority; Weight against Weight: That, if nothing will bee said for us? so nothing may bee said against us. One may balance the other; if not weigh it down.
Now, that it is An Act of the Will also, let us hear Augustine. — Fides sine Voluntate non potest esse. Et Fides in Credentium Voluntate consistit: Faith lies in the Will. Again. — Voluntate utique credimus: Verily we believe with the Will. Credere non potest, nisi Volens. August. upon John 6.44. God makes a man willing before he can believe. A man may receive the Sacrament against his Will; pray against his Will. But he cannot believe against his Will, said Augustine.
Now, that it is An Act of the Will also, let us hear Augustine. — Fides sine Voluntate non potest esse. Et Fides in Credentium Voluntate consistit: Faith lyes in the Will. Again. — Voluntate utique credimus: Verily wee beleeve with the Will. Credere non potest, nisi Volens. August. upon John 6.44. God makes a man willing before hee can beleeve. A man may receive the Sacrament against his Will; pray against his Will. But hee cannot beleeve against his Will, said Augustine.