EXPLA.
God, who made vs par∣takers of one part of his promises, will also make vs partakers of the other, while wee take these first fruits of sanctification,* 1.1 as a pledge frō him of the performance of the whole: for if wee hunger
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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- Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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and thirst for righteousnesse, hate sinne, grone vnder the burden of it,* 1.2 hanging so fast on, this light of saluation shining in vs, though not fully cleere, may bee ouer∣cast with clouds, yet neuer shal haue any night, for God doth accept our endeuour, and pardon our defects, and not onely by Christs death, as by the death of our sacri∣fice, by the blood of his Crosse,* 1.3 as by the blood of the Paschall Lambe, the destroyer passeth our vs, and we shall not perish, but also by his death, as by the death of our high Priest (for hee is Priest and sacrifice both) we are restored frō our exile,* 1.4 euen to the former forfeited estate, to the lād of promise.
Notes
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* 1.1
Mat. 5.6
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* 1.2
Heb. 12, 1
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* 1.3
Exo. 12, 15
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* 1.4
Numb. 15, 28