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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.
And this Act of trusting and resting upon CHRIST, is the ground of such Assurance,
Object. But you will say. How shall we rest upon CHRIST for Salvation, unless we be first assured of Salvation by him?
Object. But you will say. How shall wee rest upon CHRIST for Salvation, unless wee bee first assured of Salvation by him?
Answ. Indeed, unless we know CHRIST to be the only Saviour, we cannot rest upon him for Salvation. But to say, A man cannot rest upon him for Justification and Salvation, except he know he is already Justified, and shall be saved: I see little sense for that.
Answ. Indeed, unless wee know CHRIST to bee the only Saviour, wee cannot rest upon him for Salvation. But to say, A man cannot rest upon him for Justification and Salvation, except hee know hee is already Justified, and shall bee saved: I see little sense for that.
May not a man trust upon his friend, who hath engaged himself, and promised to do such a thing for him, until he knows it were already done for him? So here. May not the Soul rest upon CHRIST, who hath promised pardon and forgiveness to them that trust on him, except it first knew, that CHRIST had already pardoned, and forgiven him?