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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 Sometimes in order of Time, 1 John 5.13. — These things have I written unto you, that believe on the Name of the Son of God, that you might know, that you have Eternal life: where you see Believing goes before, and Knowing or Assurance follows after. It is not contemporary with Faith, but follows it.
1 Sometimes in order of Time, 1 John 5.13. — These things have I written unto you, that beleeve on the Name of the Son of God, that you might know, that you have Eternal life: where you see Beleeving goes before, and Knowing or Assurance follows after. It is not contemporary with Faith, but follows it.
2 Always in order of Nature. As we say, The Truth of a Proposition is ever in order of Nature, before the Knowledge of the Truth of it, Things must bee in Esse, before they can be in Cognosci: Things must Be, before they can be known to Be: So there must be pardon of sins, before there can be Assurance of pardon. A man must be Justified, before he can be assured he is Justified. Justification must needs go before the Apprehension of Justification.
2 Alwayes in order of Nature. As wee say, The Truth of a Proposition is ever in order of Nature, before the Knowledge of the Truth of it, Things must bee in Esse, before they can bee in Cognosci: Things must Bee, before they can bee known to Bee: So there must bee pardon of sins, before there can bee Assurance of pardon. A man must bee Justified, before hee can bee assured hee is Justified. Justification must needs go before the Apprehension of Justification.