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 15: Fifteenth Royalty. 15. Faith is an Heart-raising-Grace.A TREATISE OF THE NATƲRE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 15: Fifteenth Royalty. 15. Faith is an Heart-raising-Grace.

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.

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:1921p. 114

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.

Though at the same time they bee all implanted, yet in Nature Faith hath the precedency, and helps to produce the Acts of all the rest.

:1922p. 114

As God the Father is before the Son in Nature, yet not in Time. He is not a Father till he have a Son. So is it to be understood concerning Faith, and all other Graces.

As God the Father is before the Son in Nature, yet not in Time. Hee is not a Father till hee have a Son. So is it to bee understood concerning Faith, and all other Graces.

:1923p. 114¶2

2. Faith raiseth us up from the Death of inward Troubles. As the sense of Gods Love, the apprehension of his favour is the life of the Soul, Psal. 30.5. — In his favour is Life. So the sense of Gods Displeasure is the Death of the Soul, Psal. 88.10. Shall the Dead arise to praise thee? He speaks of that spiritual Desertion in which he was, labouring under the sense of Gods wrath and displeasure; which he calls the Death of the Soul. — Shall the Dead arise to praise thee? Shall my Soul, dead and sunk with discouragements, and apprehensions of thy wrath; Shall it arise to praise thee? So that this is the Death of the Soul.

2. Faith raiseth us up from the Death of inward Troubles. As the sense of Gods Love, the apprehension of his favour is the life of the Soul,

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