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.
Publication
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 May 24, 2025.
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EXPLA.
There bee two kindes of christian righteousnesse, the one without vs, which wee haue by imputation; the o∣ther in vs, which consisteth of Faith, Hope, and Charity; as Abraham had not onely the one,* 1.1 because the things beleeued was imputed to him for righteousnesse, but also the other, because he offered vp his son. They are both Gods gifts, and the first by accep∣ting vs for righteous in Christ; and the second by working christian righte∣ousnesse in vs, by the spirit of adoption, which we haue receiued into our hearts; which maketh two kindes
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of sanctifying righteous∣nesse, habituall and actu∣all.