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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.
Now then, would you know whether you have Faith? try your selves. Have you found, that God hath thus wrought in you? what? hast thou been thus humbled in the sight and sense of sin? deeply affected with the fullness and freeness of the Grace of God in Christ, so as to raise up in thee those earnest longings and pantings after him, so as thus to cast and venture thy soul upon him, this useth to be the manner and way of Gods working Faith in us; by which we may come to know whether this Faith be wrought in us, or no.
Now then, would you know whether you have Faith? try your selves. Have you found, that God hath thus wrought in you? what? hast thou been thus humbled in the sight and sense of sin? deeply affected with the fulness and freeness of the Grace of God in Christ, so as to raise up in thee those earnest longings and pantings after him, so as thus to cast and venture thy soul upon him, this useth to bee the manner and way of Gods working Faith in us; by which wee may come to know whether this Faith bee wrought in us, or no.
2. Some Evidences are taken from the Grace it self. In which, because Faith doth admit of degrees; some having stronger Faith, some weaker. Though all of us have (as it is in 2 Pet. 1.1.) — The like precious Faith, the same Faith for kind: yet all have not the same Faith for degrees. In some it is strong, in some it is weak: Sincere in all. All men are not of like age: all Trees not of the like growth. We read of a little Faith. — Oh ye of little Faith! Faith, though little. We read of a great Faith. — Oh Woman! great is thy Faith. All Believers are not of the like stature in Christ. Some are but Babes, and some are grown men; there's a little Faith comparatively: and there's a great Faith. Therefore lest I should unsure the weak in satisfying the strong, I will here give you 1. Some Evidences of a weak Faith. 2. Some Evidences of a strong Faith.
2. Some Evidences are taken from the Grace it self. In which, because Faith doth admit of degrees; some having stronger Faith, some weaker. Though all of us have (as it is in