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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.
Sixth Royalty. 6 Faith is an heart-humbling Grace.
1Whether it be a Legal, or whether it be an Evangelical-Faith, it works humiliation. The one a Legal humiliation, and casting down: The other an Evangelical-humiliation; we shall in this chiefly deal with the first.
1Whether it bee a Legal, or whether it be an Evangelical-Faith, it works humiliation. The one a Legal humiliation, and casting down: The other an Evangelical-humiliation; we shall in this cheifly deal with the first.
- 16 Royalty of Faith. Its a soul-humbling Grace.
It is said of Ahab, that he humbled himself, put on sackcloth, and went softly. And this was the fruit and effect of his Legal-Faith, whereby he believed the truth, and certainty of Gods Judgements denounced against him, and his house. The men of Nineveh, when Jonah preached that sad Sermon. Jonah 3.4.— Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed — It is said — They believed God; That is, The truth of that message, which Jonah brought from God. And it follows, as an effect of this Faith — They humbled themselves, and proclaimed a fast, and put on Sack-cloth, and sate in ashes, from the King upon the Throne, to the meanest of them.