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Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof
Conscience with the power and cases thereof Divided into V. books. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latin into English, for more public benefit.Conscience with the power and cases thereof Devided into V. bookes. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latine into English, for more publique benefit.
Leiden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639Leyden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639
Book 2 › Chapter 14: Of the hope of eternal life.Book 2 › Chapter 14: Of the hope of eternall life.
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3. Secondly, Faith ought to receive all that which God hath thus confirmed, Heb. 4. 2.
4. This certainty is perfected in us by three Acts, 1. by an act of Faith properly so called whereby we rest upon God by Christ, for the certain obtaining of salvation: 2 By an act [Greek or Hebrew] of knowledge, whereby we believing do understand that God hath certainly adjudged this salvation unto us. 3. By an act of confidence or of hope, whereby we certainly look for this salvation, which is thus adjudged to us and made ours. But yet for all that the whole application is attributed to Faith, because it dependeth first, and chiefly on faith.
4. This certainty is perfected in us by three Acts, 1. by an act of Faith properly so called whereby we rest upon God by Christ, for the certaine obtaining of salvation: 2 By an act 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 of knowledge, whereby we believing do understand that God hath certainly adjudged this salvation unto us. 3. By an act of confidence or of hope, whereby we certainly looke for this salvation, which is thus adjudg'd to us and made ours. But yet for all that the whole application is attributed to Faith, because it dependeth first, and chiefly on faith.