CON. 12.
Our saluation hangeth not vpon the sufficiency of our faith, repentance, or righteousnesse: for they are
Spirituall encrease: or, Conclusions for pacifying the perplexed conscience of the weake Christian
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- Spirituall encrease: or, Conclusions for pacifying the perplexed conscience of the weake Christian
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- Robertson, Bartholomew, fl. 1620.
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- London :: Printed by Nicholas Okes, for William Lee, and are to be sold at his shop in Fleete streete, at the signe of the golden Buck, neare Seriants Inne,
- 1621.
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neuer such as they ought to be.
EXPLA.
It is not the valew or worth of any thing in vs, that can merit pardon, but in faith there is a sincerity and truth required: For wee are Iustified freely by the grace of God,* 1.1 through the redemption which is in Christ Iesus, whom God hath set forth for an at∣tonement for vs by faith in his blood, onely by faith I say tha•• it may bee of grace that the promise may be sure to the seede,* 1.2 that through the name of Christ euery one that belee∣ued in him, shall haue forgiue∣nesse of sinnes: for as many as are vnder the workes of the
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Law, are vnder the curse, for it is written,* 1.3 cursed is euery one that continueth not in all things that are written in the booke of the Law, to doe them: now the Law is not of faith, but (he sayth) he that doth these things shall liue in them.* 1.4 Yee are voyded of Christ: yee are fallen from grace, that will bee iustified by the Law, for if they which bee of the Law bee heires, then faith is made voyde, and the promise is made of none ef∣fect:* 1.5 if the inheritance bee by the Law, it is no longer by promise: but God hath giuen vnto vs eternall life, and this life is in his Sonne.
So eternall life is the gift of God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Neither yet shall we
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euer haue that fulnesse of grace here, to keepe perfect∣ly the commandements: yet as grace increaseth, so wee increase in keeping of them in this life, and in the end, sinne being wholly abo∣lished for euer, we shall bee fully conformed to the I∣mage of righteousnesse, that God desired in the Law. Now Christ was circumci∣sed for vs: and he that is cir∣cumcised,* 1.6 is made debter to the whole Law, in the which cir∣cumcision hee entred bond for vs, and shed fewe drops of blood, as a pledge hee would shed all the rest for vs thereafter.
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* 1.1
Rom. 3, 34 Rom: 4, 16
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* 1.2
Gal. 3, 10
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* 1.3
Gal. 5, 4
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* 1.4
Rom. 4, 14
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* 1.5
Gal. 3, 18
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* 1.6
Gal. 5.3