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We are ioynt-heires with Christ, and must attaine to our inheritance that same way which he did, beeing
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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first partakers with him in suffering, as we shall be af∣terwards in glory.
EXPLA.
Faith expecteth all these things from God, because it is giuen vnto vs for Christs sake not only to beleeue in him,* 1.1 but also to suffer for his sake, beeing strengthned with all might thorow his glorious pow∣er, to all patience, and long suf∣fering, with ioyfulnes.* 1.2 To this end, as the sufferings of Christ abound in them, so hee causeth their consolations to abound through Christ, & their hope is stedfast in this behalfe, be∣cause they know,* 1.3 that as they are partakers of the sufferings,
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so they shall be of the consolati∣on, for faith resteth vpon that which is written, hee hath said, I wil not fail thee, nor for∣sake thee: therefore wee may boldly say,
The Lord is on my side, I will not feare what man can do vnto me; he hath predestinated vs to be made like to the I∣mage of his Sonne: and there∣fore hauing receiued the spi∣rit to reueale vnto vs this se∣cret of predestination, wee stand assured, that accor∣dingly he will accomplish in vs the Image of his Sonne, that together with him wee may beare the crosse, and to∣gether with him also weare the crowne; and therefore shall so order all things, that there shall be nothing to come
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that shall separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesus our Lord.
Notes
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* 1.1
Phil. 1, 29
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* 1.2
Col. 1, 11,
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* 1.3
2. Cor. 1, 5, Heb. 13, 5,