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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.
This is the first way of Faiths purifying the Heart, — Argumentativè — or by way of Argument.
2. Operativè. As Faith doth operate and work for the cleansing of our nature, making use of Christ, who is called A Fountain, Zach. 13.1. A Refiner, Mal. 3.3. A Purger, Joh. 15.2.
He is said to come with Refiners fire, with Fullers Soap, to purge and purify us. And thus Faith makes use of Christ, by the least touch of whom, the sinful flux of sin is dried up and staid. And Faith makes use.
Hee is said to come with Refiners fire, with Fullers Sope, to purge and purifie us. And thus Faith makes use of Christ, by the least touch of whom, the sinfull flux of sin is dryed up and staid. And Faith makes use.