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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.
2 In the Court of Conscience; It is not Faith, but Assurance which Justifies. Where the [Greek or Hebrew], or first Proposition is the undoubted Word of God, — he that believes shall be saved. The [Greek or Hebrew], or Assumption is the Testimony of our own spirit, with that word. The [Greek or Hebrew]: is the verdict, and Testimony of the SPIRIT of God, testifying with our spirit, according to the word, whereby we have Assurance.
2 In the Court of Conscience; It is not Faith, but Assurance which Justifies. Where the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or first Proposition is the undoubted Word of God, — hee that beeleves shall bee saved. The 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or Assumption is the Testimony of our own spirit, with that word. The 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: is the verdict, and Testimony of the SPIRIT of God, testifying with our spirit, according to the word, whereby wee have Assurance.
In the Court of men: It is nor Faith, nor Assurance, that Justifies; but works.
Object. 5 But you will say. If Assurance be not the Act whereby we are justified, Because it is a Fruit of Justifying Faith: Much less can Trust be the Act of it, because it is the Fruit of Assurance.
Object. 5 But you will say. If Assurance bee not the Act whereby wee are justified, Because it is a Fruit of Justifying Faith: Much less can Trust bee the Act of it, because it is the Fruit of Assurance.