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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. That Hope looks to the end, which is Salvation: But this act of Trust, looks to the Means, which brings to the end, and that is Christ.
2. The act of Hope is to expect: But the act of Trust is to lean, and rest.
3. The Object of Hope is, Bonum Futurum, a Future Good: But the object of Trust is, Bonum Presence, a Present Good.
3. The Object of Hope is, Bonum Futurum, a Future Good: But the object of Trust is, Bonum Presens, a Present Good.
This act of Trust doth rest upon Christ, Non per modum expectantis; sed per modum possidentis, not by way of Expectation, but by way of Possession. As — He that believes in the Son hath life. It is not said, — He shall have life; but — He hath life: not in Spe, but in Re; not in Hope only, but in Hand; The life of Righteousness, and Justification in Hand: The life of Glory and Salvation in Hope.