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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.
Now, that which apprehends Justification, is not Justifying Faith, but follows, it: For Apprehension follows Justification. No man can truly apprehend himself to be Justified, till he be Justified.
Now, that which apprehends Justification, is not Justifying Faith, but follows, it: For Apprehension follows Justification. No man can truly apprehend himself to bee Justified, till hee bee Justified.
But Justifying Faith is in nature before Justification.
And therefore; unless we should say, that That which follows, is That which goes before; we cannot say, that that which apprehends Justification, is Justification: And by Consequence, Assurance is not that Faith which Justifies.
And therefore; unless wee should say, that That which follows, is That which goes before; wee cannot say, that that which apprehends Justification, is Justification: And by Consequence, Assurance is not that Faith which Justifies.