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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. Faith is needful, in respect of our Performances. Faith is necessary to every work of a Christian: needful to every Ordinance.
We must pray in Faith; hear in Faith; receive in Faith; do all things in Faith. Faith must incorporate it self with every duty. — Whatever is not of Faith, is sin, Rom. 14.23. Whatever is before Faith is only the issue of a corrupt nature, and of a corrupt conscience; and therefore it cannot please God, Tit. 1.15. Rom. 10.14.
Wee must pray in Faith; hear in Faith; receive in Faith; do all things in Faith. Faith must incorporate it self with every duty. — Whatever is not of Faith, is sin, Rom. 14.23. Whatever is before Faith is only the issue of a corrupt nature, and of a corrupt conscience; and therefore it cannot please God, Tit. 1.15. Rom. 10.14.
Faith is the salt, which seasons and sweetens every duty. It is ⟨p. 168⟩the life, and soul of every performance; without which all are but dead, and stinking works; and cannot please God. Faith is to duty, as the Soul is to the Body.