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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.
Strong Faith, and strong Obedience. Obedience is proportionable to our Faith. The greater the Faith, the more the Obedience. A little Tree, a young Tree may bring forth good fruit, as well as a greater: but not in equal quantity to the greater: so he that hath the least degree of true Faith, lives a godly life, brings forth some fruits of Obedience: but they are not so plentiful in good works, as those, whose Faith is come to an higher degree.
Strong Faith, and strong Obedience. Obedience is proportionable to our Faith. The greater the Faith, the more the Obedience. A little Tree, a young Tree may bring forth good fruit, as well as a greater: but not in equal quantity to the greater: so hee that hath the least degree of true Faith, lives a godly life, brings forth some fruits of Obedience: but they are not so plentiful in good works, as those, whose Faith is come to an higher degree.
Weak Faith doth obey; and this Obedience is a willing, a cheerful, a fruitful, a constant, an universal Obedience, both, 1. In respect of the Subject; The whole Man; and 2. In respect of the Object; The whole Law.
Weak Faith doth obey; and this Obedience is a willing, a chearful, a fruitful, a constant, an universal Obedience, both, 1. In respect of the Subject; The whole Man; and 2. In respect of the Object; The whole Law.
There is a willing yielding of the soul up to God, to walk in every way of God. As David, Lord, I am thine; or as the Prophet Isaiah. — One shall say, I am the Lords. Otherwise it were not true Obedience.
There is a willing yeelding of the soul up to God, to walk in every way of God. As David, Lord, I am thine; or as the Prophet Isaiah. — One shall say, I am the Lords. Otherwise it were not true Obedience.