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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 therefore God hath made Faith to be that Grace, which makes us spiritually to be the Seed of Abraham; that so the Promise might belong to us.
And therefore God hath made Faith to bee that Grace, which makes us spiritually to bee the Seed of Abraham; that so the Promise might belong to us.
If God had made the Law the condition of the Promise: Or, if he had made the Law and Faith together: yet then we had never come to be of Abraham's Seed: Because we were not under the Law.
If God had made the Law the condition of the Promise: Or, if hee had made the Law and Faith together: yet then wee had never come to bee of Abrahams Seed: Because wee were not under the Law.
But God having made Faith the Grace, which doth make us the Children of Abraham. Hence is the Promise to us, as to his seed: not to that part which is of the Law; but to that part which is of the Faith of Abraham — who is the Father of all that believe.
But God having made Faith the Grace, which doth make us the Children of Abraham. Hence is the Promise to us, as to his seed: not to that part which is of the Law; but to that part which is of the Faith of Abraham — who is the Father of all that beleeve.