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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. The Second Rule I shall desire to go by, is this, to lay down such Evidences as are universal; and belong to all Believers, weak, as well as strong; the least degree of saving Faith, as well as the highest measure of it. I shall desire so to comfort the strong, as not to discourage the weak: so to satisfy the strong, as I may also establish the weak. For
2. The Second Rule I shall desire to go by, is this, to lay down such Evidences as are universal; and belong to all Beleevers, weak, as well as strong; the least degree of saving Faith, as well as the highest measure of it. I shall desire so to comfort the strong, as not to discourage the weak: so to satisfie the strong, as I may also establish the weak. For
I conceive, There's a great Error committed in the laying down of Evidences, to take an Evidence from the highest degree of Faith.
As when we should lay down an Evidence of Faith, we take our Evidence from Assurance. This is a great Error. By this means we shall cast out many thousands, who are true Believers, and yet want Assurance.
As when wee should lay down an Evidence of Faith, wee take our Evidence from Assurance. This is a great Error. By this means wee shall cast out many thousands, who are true Beleevers, and yet want Assurance.