CONCLVSION 2.
Man may remain faith∣full
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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"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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in weakenesse, though weake in faith.
EXPLANATION
Such is our weake and weaning nature, that wee haue no sooner receiued grace, but wee are ready to fall from it, for many and grieuous downe-falls haue beleeuers, yet still continue inuincible though we finde in our selues a most willing heart to cleaue inseparably to God, euen so farre, as to think vnfainedly with Peter, Lord I am ready to goe with thee into prison and death: yet how soone and how easily, vpon how small occasions, are wee changed, if wee bee but a while let alone, and left vnto our selues, for the
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higher wee flow, the nereer we are to an ebbe, if men be respected as meere men, ac∣cording to the wonted course of their alterable in∣clination, without the hea∣uenly support of the Spirit.