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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.
1. For our Habitual Sanctification, There we say, the Spirit of God is the only Cause; and Faith is an Effect as well as others: Faith is a part of our inherent Sanctification.
1. For our Habitual Sanctification, There wee say, the Spirit of God is the only Cause; and Faith is an Effect as well as others: Faith is a part of our inherent Sanctification.
2. For our Actual Sanctification, or as those Habits do act and exercise; and there we say, Faith doth help to produce the acts of Grace, of Love, of Repentance, 1 Tim. 1.5. — Love out of a pure heart, and a good Conscience, and of Faith unfeigned. Faith doth not only lend an hand to its Fellow-Graces, for the perfecting of Grace; but Faith doth help to produce the Acts of Grace; the Acts of Love, of Repentance, Zeal, Patience, &c.
2. For our Actual Sanctification, or as those Habits do act and exercise; and there wee say, Faith doth help to produce the acts of Grace, of Love, of Repentance, 1 Tim. 1.5. — Love out of a pure heart, and a good Conscience, and of Faith unfeigned. Faith doth not only lend an hand to its Fellow-Graces, for the perfecting of Grace; but Faith doth help to produce the Acts of Grace; the Acts of Love, of Repentance, Zeal, Patience, &c.
Though at the same time they be all implanted, yet in Nature Faith hath the precedency, and helps to produce the Acts of all the rest.