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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. With Holiness in Life. Though it cannot bring forth as strong fruits of Holiness: yet it will bring forth fruits according to its strength. A little Tree, a young Tree may bring forth some good fruits, though not in equal quantity to another of greater growth. So he that hath the meanest Faith, he lives an holy Life; brings forth some good fruits, though not so plentiful in good works, as they, whose Faith is come to a more perfect growth.
2. With Holiness in Life. Though it cannot bring forth as strong fruits of Holiness: yet it will bring forth fruits according to its strength. A little Tree, a young Tree may bring forth some good fruits, though not in equal quantity to another of greater growth. So hee that hath the meanest Faith, hee lives an holy Life; brings forth some good fruits, though not so plentiful in good works, as they, whose Faith is come to a more perfect growth.
6. Weak Faith doth not rest in weakness: but labours after strength. Weak Faith is a growing Faith. Though it begins in weakness, yet it grows to strength; which growth is a character of all true Grace. And therefore doth it thirst after the Ordinances, as a new born Babe, that it may grow thereby. As the Word was the Breeder of it: so it thirsteth after it to be the Feeder. As it was the Begetter of it: (for true Faith is the Daughter of the Ministry— Faith comes by hearing, Rom. 10.) so it thirsts after it for nourishment.
6. Weak Faith doth not rest in weaknesse: but labours after strength. Weak Faith is a growing Faith. Though it begins in weakness, yet it grows to strength; which growth is a character of all true Grace. And therefore doth it thirst after the Ordinances, as a new born Babe, that it may grow thereby. As the Word was the Breeder of it: so it thirsteth after it to bee the Feeder. As it was the Begetter of it: (for true Faith is the Daughter of the Ministry— Faith comes by hearing,