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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.
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.
Ans. I say, That to believe, is not to be assured. And to be assured, is not to believe. Faith is not Assurance; Nor is Assurance Faith, as many have held.
Ans. I say, That to beleeve, is not to bee assured. And to bee assured, is not to beleeve. Faith is not Assurance; Nor is Assurance Faith, as many have held.
I will not trouble you with the Controversy; only I will infer these things.
I will not trouble you with the Controversie; only I will infer these things.
1 If Assurance were the Act of Faith, whereby we are justified: Then where there's no Assurance, there's no Faith. This were an hard Consequent. Nay, then, Whoever lives and dyes without Assurance, cannot be saved. They who live and dye without Faith cannot be saved, And if Faith were Assurance: Then, Whoever lived and dyed without Assurance could not be saved: Which far be it from me to hold.