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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.
1. Frequent the powerful and sincere preaching of the word of God; a Faith-begetting-means. Faith comes by hearing, Rom. 10.17. True Faith is the Daughter of Mercy. For this end God hath set up this Ordinance in the Church, that it might be a means for the begetting Faith in the hearts of unbelieving men. And God doth often in the opening of Scripture, open our understandings, that we may believe, Luk. 24.45. John 20.31.
1. Frequent the powerful and sincere preaching of the word of God; a Faith-begetting-means. Faith comes by hearing, Rom. 10.17. True Faith is the Daughter of Mercy. For this end God hath set up this Ordinance in the Church, that it might bee a means for the begetting Faith in the hearts of unbeleeving men. And God doth often in the opening of Scripture, open our understandings, that wee may beleeve, Luk. 24.45. John 20.31.
And in the hearing of the Word, keep thy Ear open, to hear what God saith by his Spirit in the Gospel. Faith comes not by mercy of the Law, but of the Gospel.
And in the Gospel, dwell upon Faith-breeding-Promises. Indeed, all the Promises tend to beget Faith: but especially such, wherein the good Will of God, and the Heart of God is discovered: such wherein the freeness and richness of Gods Promises are discovered.