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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. It is a thing necessary to be known.
2. It is a thing necessary to bee known.
1. It is a thing possible to be known. Hence have we so many exhortations; to examine and search. If it were not possible to be known; in vain were these exhortations. God doth not use to put us upon Impossibilities. Though God in the Law may require that of a natural man, which is impossible for him to do, Rom. 8.3. because he gave man once ability to do whatever is commanded; yet in the Gospel Christ doth require nothing of the faithful, which by Grace is not possible to be done. Possible then it is. There is light enough in the Word; if a man will bring his heart unto it; and deal impartially with himself, in the search, whether he hath Faith or no.
1. It is a thing possible to bee known. Hence have wee so many exhortations; to examine and search. If it were not possible to bee known; in vain were these exhortations. God doth not use to put us upon Impossibilities. Though God in the Law may require that of a natural man, which is impossible for him to do, Rom. 8.3. because hee gave man once ability to do whatever is commanded; yet in the Gospel Christ doth require nothing of the faithful, which by Grace is not possible to bee done. Possible then it is. There is light enough in the Word; if a man will bring his heart unto it; and deal impartially with himself, in the search, whether hee hath Faith or no.
The Papists indeed do say: It is a thing impossible to know, whether