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The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse showing a Christians…The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse shewing a Christians…
The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse showing a Christians privilege in approaching to God in ordinances, duty in his sacramental approaches, danger if he do not sanctify God in them / by Samuel Bolton ...The guard of the tree of life, or, A sacramental discourse shewing a Christians priviledge in approaching to God in ordinances, duty in his sacramentall approaches, danger if hee do not sanctifie God in them / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by M. Simmons for A. Kembe, 1644
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.
3. For what benefits faith must here be exercised.
For the first, viz. what act of Faith is here to be exercised. There are these two main acts of Faith. 1. An act of Recumbence: 2. An act of apprehension & application ⟨p. 46⟩of Christ. 1Both these may be exercised here, and to our spiritual benefit.
For the first, viz. what act of Faith is here to bee exercised. There are these two main acts of Faith. 1. An act of Recumbence: 2. An act of apprehension & application ⟨p. 46⟩of Christ. 1Both these may be exercised here, and to our spirituall benefit.
- 1Fides potest habere aliquem modum dubitationis salvâ fide. Daven. Fideicertitudo importat firmitatem adhaesionis, non quietationem intellectus. Aquin.
By the one we go over to Christ, by the other we bring Christ over to us.