A28620:1286
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.
As others, who have made The Formal Act of Faith, a willing Assent, which is both An Act of the VVill and Understanding; to avoid the seating of the Habit in diverse Faculties, have placed it in the Mind; which, (say they) comprehends the Understanding and the VVill:
As others, who have made The Formall Act of Faith, a willing Assent, which is both An Act of the VVill and Understanding; to avoid the seating of the Habit in diverse Faculties, have placed it in the Mind; which, (say they) comprehends the Understanding and the VVill:
So we here; To avoid the like, do seat it more properly in the Heart. And therefore that absurdity of seating Faith in diverse Faculties will not follow on us; Though we say, That this Act of Faith, whereby we are justified, Be such an Act, wherein many other Acts are folded up: The Understanding assenting, The VVill trusting, &c.
So wee here; To avoid the like, do seat it more properly in the Heart. And therefore that absurdity of seating Faith in diverse Faculties will not follow on us; Though wee say, That this Act of Faith, whereby wee are justified, Bee such an Act, wherin many other Acts are folded up: The Understanding assenting, The VVill trusting, &c.
Object. 4 But to believe, is to be assured. And therefore it is not to trust.
Object. 4 But to believe, is to bee assured. And therefore it is not to trust.