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Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth
Precious faith considered in its nature, working, and growth by Edward Polhill ...
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1675
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.
CHAP. VII.
Of the second holy fruit of Faith in Justification, its growth upon Faith as a fruit thereof; with the manner, continuance, perfection, and various excellencies of the same.
THUS much for the first fruit of faith, being the spiritual sagacities thereof; whereby it appears, that the believer is the only wise man, who hath eyes in his head, whilst all the rest of the world, be they what they will in notional knowledge, walk on in darkness.
THUS much for the first fruit of faith, being the spiritual sagacities thereof; whereby it appears, that the believer is the only wise man, who hath eyes in his head, whilest all the rest of the world, be they what they will in notional knowledge, walk on in darkness.
The second holy fruit of faith is Justification, which is a very great blessing, so great that in Luther's phrase it is articulus stantis & cadentis Ecclesiae; and in Chemnitius, arx & propugnaculum religionis Christianae, a blessing that is pregnant with many more; which occasioned a good Divine to say, sin committed is every judgment radically, and pardon of sin is every mercy radically, you may cut out any blessing or comfort out of it; particular mercies are but pardon of sin specificated and individuated, brought into this or that mercy; of all blessings you may say, this is pardon of sin, and that is