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
Author
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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"Spirituall encrease: or, Conclusions for pacifying the perplexed conscience of the weake Christian." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10826.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.

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CON. 29.

The foundation of faith is not onely the generall ground whereupon we rest, when wee beleeue the wri∣tings of the Prophets and Apostles, but also it is the principall thing which is beleeued, that is Christ.

EXPLA.

There is a foundation of our faith, God manifested in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit;* 1.1 and this, Thou art the Sonne of the liuing God,* 1.2 thou art the King of Israel: and that of the inhabitants of Samaria: This is Christ the Sauiour of the* 1.3

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world. Which, who directly doth deny, doth vtterly rase the very foundation of faith: for Christ in the worke of mans saluation, is all, with∣out our workes: for hee is that seede in whom all the Na∣tions of the world shall be bles∣sed; and among men there is gi∣uen no other name vnder hea∣uen,* 1.4 whereby we must be saued; other foundation can no man lay.

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