B00150:605
A short treatise
A short treatise: containing all the principal grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for householders..A short treatise: containing all the principall grounds of Christian religion. By way of questions and answers: very profitable for all sorts of men, but especially for housholders..
London: printed for William Welby, 1617
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.
Q. What is the principal work of faith?
Q. What is the principall worke of faith?
A. It 20 purifieth lthe heart.
Expos. 20. To purify the heart is to abate and crucify the power of sin in the believers, and by little and little to renew them in holiness and righteousness, Gal. 5. 24. and 6. 14. The Spirit of God is the author of sanctification, Jo. 3. 5. 1. Cor. 6. 11. Gal. 5. 22. Rom. 8. 11. faith is the instrument of the holy Ghost, whereby the heart is cleansed. Col. 2. 12.
Expos. 20. To purifie the heart is to abate and crucifie the power of sinne in the beleeuers, and by little and little to renew them in holines and righteousnes,