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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, If to believe were to be assured, we are Justified, and our sins pardoned: Then God commands to believe an untruth: That our sins are pardoned, before they are pardoned: That we are Justified, before we are Justified.
Now, If to beleeve were to bee assured, wee are Justified, and our sins pardoned: Then God commands to beleeve an untruth: That our sins are pardoned, before they are pardoned: That wee are Justified, before wee are Justified.
Nay, Such as are Reprobates, and shall never be pardoned: If to believe, were to be assured of pardon; Then, I say, God commands them to be assured of pardon: And so commands to believe a lye, an untruth.
Nay, Such as are Reprobates, and shall never bee pardoned: If to beleeve, were to bee assured of pardon; Then, I say, God commands them to bee assured of pardon: And so commands to beleeve a lye, an untruth.
There is 1 The Act of Faith, and 2 The Fruit of Faith.
The Act of Faith is, To cast our selves on CHRIST, to rest, to trust on him.