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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.
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.
1 If Assurance were the Act of Faith, whereby wee are justified: Then where there's no Assurance, there's no Faith. This were an hard Consequent. Nay, then, VVhoever lives and dyes without Assurance, cannot bee saved. They who live and dye without Faith cannot bee saved, And if Faith were Assurance: Then, Whoever lived and dyed without Assurance could not bee saved: Which far bee it from mee to hold.
2 That which is a Consequent of justifying Faith, is not Justifying Faith. This is plain.
But Assurance is a Consequent of Justifying Faith. It is that, which follows it, 1 Sometimes in order of Time. 2 Always in order of Nature.
But Assurance is a Consequent of Justifying Faith. It is that, which follows it, 1 Sometimes in order of Time. 2 Alwayes in order of Nature.