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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.
2. But secondly. You say; Believers want Peace. It may be they do: They want the sense of Peace, but not the ground of Peace. They have the ground of Peace, interest in Christ, Reconciliation with God, Justification, pardon of sin, Sanctification; although for present, they want the sense of Peace, the clear apprehensions of all this to their Souls.
2. But secondly. You say; Beleevers want Peace. It may bee they do: They want the sense of Peace, but not the ground of Peace. They have the ground of Peace, interest in Christ, Reconciliation with God, Justification, pardon of sin, Sanctification; although for present, they want the sense of Peace, the clear apprehensions of all this to their Souls.
They have Peace with God, Rom. 5.1. But they want Peace with themselves. The direct act of Faith gives a man Peace with God, Isa. 27.5. — Let him take hold of my strength, and I will be at Peace with him. But the Reflect act of Faith is it which gives a man Peace within himself. A man may have the one, and yet want the other.
They have Peace with God, Rom. 5.1. But they want Peace with themselves. The direct act of Faith gives a man Peace with God, Isa. 27.5. — Let him take hold of my strength, and I will bee at Peace with him. But the Reflect act of Faith is it which gives a man Peace within himself. A man may have the one, and yet want the other.