The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

Name: The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657

[34], 420 [i.e. 455], [2] p. : port. · 221k words · Wing B3518 · ESTC R7007

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A TREATISE OF THE NATURE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 18 › Use of Examination.A TREATISE OF THE NATƲRE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 18 › Use of Examination.

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:2468p. 168

It is, because you bring no Faith to the Word, that the Word of God is not a raising, a quickening, a comforting word to your souls: That it is not an enlightening, a convincing, a converting, and a reforming word.

It is, because you bring no Faith to the Word, that the Word of God is not a raising, a quickening, a comforting word to your souls: That it is not an inlightening, a convincing, a converting, and a reforming word.

:2469p. 168

So for the Sacraments. Could these be so unprofitable? could you live under them, and get no further victory of lust? no more increase of Grace, if you did bring and exercise Faith here, to fetch from this treasure opened.

So for the Sacraments. Could these bee so unprofitable? could you live under them, and get no further victory of lust? no more increase of Grace, if you did bring and exercise Faith here, to fetch from this treasure opened.

:2470p. 168–169

It is necessary to every Ordinance, necessary to your Callings; necessary to every condition. We had need of Faith to go ⟨p. 169⟩through all the conditions of this life: Through Prosperity, Adversity, Sickness, Health: Losses and Enjoyments. As the Apostle said of Patience, the Daughter, so I say of Faith the Mother. — You have need of Faith, that after ye have suffered the Will of God, ye might inherit the Promise, Heb. 10.36.

It is necessary to every Ordinance, necessary to your Callings; necessary to every condition. Wee had need of Faith to go

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