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A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…
A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrick Gillespie ...A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ...
Edinburgh: printed by Gideon Lithgow for George Swintoun, 1649Edinburgh: printed by Gedeon Lithgovv for George Svvintoun, 1649
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.
dare not acquiesce nor sit down satisfied with that resolution, where there is receiving or believing, there cannot be a dead faith. For the soul must still enquire, whether is my receiving or believing true, real, sound, lively, and such as cannot agree to a dead faith? The same Author whom I last cited, where he putteth a difference between a counterfeit faith, and a true faith, he saith, that the counterfeit faith1 neither reneweth nor changeth the heart, it maketh not a new man; but leaveth him in the vanity of his former opinion and conversation. Whence I infer that he who will throughly & rightly examine himself in this particular, have I true faith, yea or no? Must needs (before he have a solid resolution) be put upon this further inquiry, is there any heart-renewing or heart-changing work in me? or am I still in the vanity of my former opinion and conversation, yea or no?
dare not acquiesce nor sit down satisfied with that resolution, where there is receaving or beleeving, there cannot be a dead faith. For the soule must still enquire, whether is my receaving or beleeving true, reall, sound, lively, and such as cannot agree to a dead faith? The same Author whom I last cited, where he putteth a difference between a counterfeit faith, and a true faith, he saith, that the counterfeit faith1 neither reneweth nor changeth the heart, it maketh not a new man; but leaveth him in the vanity of his former opinion and conversation. Whence I inf•r that he who wil throughly & rightly examine himself in this particular, have I true faith, yea or no? Must needs (before he have a solid resolution) be put upon this further inquiry, is there any heart-renewing or heartchanging work in me? or am I still in the vanity of my former opinion and conversation, yea or no?
- 1Honey comb. chap. 16. p▪ 481, 482▪Honey combe. chap. 16. p▪ 481, 482▪