The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Name: The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657

[34], 420 [i.e. 455], [2] p. : port. · 221k words · Wing B3518 · ESTC R7007

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A TREATISE OF THE NATURE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 9: Ninth Royalty. 9 Faith is an heart-pacifying Grace.A TREATISE OF THE NATƲRE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 9: Ninth Royalty. 9 Faith is an heart-pacifying Grace.

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:1653p. 86¶4

4. Faith doth instate us into the conditions of Peace. Faith gives us the grounds of Peace, Justification, Reconciliation with God, pardon of sin, and Sanctification of the whole man. As there is no Peace, where God is not propitious; so there's no Peace where the sinner is not sanctified.

:1654p. 86

A Believing heart is an holy heart: and an holy heart is a peaceable heart. Grace and Peace: and Righteousness, and Peace, are still coupled together. To show, that where there is no Grace, there is no Peace: and where there is Grace, there is Peace, though not ever in the Possession,¹ and sensible enjoyment; yet ever in the hope and assurance of the promise of Peace. Grace is the root, and Peace is the fruit. — A good Conscience is a continual Feast. They who do the work of God, shall have the Peace of God, Gal. 6. — They who walk according to this Rule, Peace shall be on them, &c. Hence the Psalmist, Psal. 119 165. — Great Peace have they that love thy Law. They which love the Law of God, shall have the Peace of God.

A Beleeving heart is an holy heart: and an holy heart is a peaceable heart. Grace and Peace: and Righteousnesse, and Peace, are still coupled together. To shew, that where there is no Grace, there is no Peace: and where there is Grace, there is Peace, though not ever in the Possession,¹ and sensible injoyment; yet ever in the hope and assurance of the promise of Peace. Grace is the root, and Peace is the fruit. — A good Conscience is a continual Feast. They who do the work of God, shall have the Peace of God, Gal. 6. — They who walk according to this Rule, Peace shall bee on them, &c. Hence the Psalmist,

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