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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.
This is the second. Prayer is a fruit of Faith; and yet prayer is a means for the begetting of Faith. As the Spirit is a fruit of Prayer; so prayer is a fruit of the Spirit. As you see, Luk. 11.13. compared with Rom. 8.15. In the one place the Spirit is said to be the fruit of Prayer. — He will give his Spirit to them that ask him. In the other, Prayer is the fruit of the Spirit. — You have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby you cry abba, Father.
This is the second. Prayer is a fruit of Faith; and yet prayer is a means for the begetting of Faith. As the Spirit is a fruit of Prayer; so prayer is a fruit of the Spirit. As you see, Luk. 11.13. compared with Rom. 8.15. In the one place the Spirit is said to bee the fruit of Prayer. — Hee will give his Spirit to them that ask him. In the other, Prayer is the fruit of the Spirit. — You have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby you cry abba, Father.
3. Have much to do with Faith-begetting-Company; Faith-begetting-conference: Where thou shalt hear the discoveries, how God hath wrought Faith in them; and how God doth work Faith in the hearts of unbelieving men. — Did not our hearts burn within us, when he talked with us, by the way? and when he opened to us the Scriptures? said those two Disciples after their conference with Christ, travelling in company together to Emmaus, Luk. 24.32. The like of Aquila and Priscilla with Apollo, Act. 18.26.
3. Have much to do with Faith-begetting-Company; Faith-begetting-conference: Where thou shalt hear the discoveries, how God hath wrought Faith in them; and how God doth work Faith in the hearts of unbeleeving men. — Did not our hearts burn within us, when hee talked with us, by the way? and when hee opened to us the Scriptures? said those two Disciples after their conference with Christ, travelling in company together to Emmaus,