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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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so is not Gods, For whō God hath iustisied,* 1.1 Christ hath assured, it is his fathers will to giue them a Kingdome. Not∣withstanding, it shall not be other wise giuen them, then if they continue grounded and stablished in the faith,* 1.2 and bee not mooued away from the hope of the Gospell,* 1.3 & if they abide in loue and holinesse. Our Sauiour therefore when hee spake of the sheep effectually called, and truely gathered into his fold,* 1.4 I giue vnto them eternall life, and they shall neuer perish, neither shall any plucke them out of my hands; in promi∣sing to saue them, he promi∣seth no doubt to preserue them, in that, without which there can be no saluation; as also from that, whereby it is
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irreuokeably lost. Euery er∣ror indeed in things apper∣taining to God, is repug∣nant to faith; euery feare∣full cogitation, vnto hope: vnto loue, euery stragling & inordinate desire: vnto ho∣linesse, euery blemish wher∣by either the inward thoghts of our mindes, or outward actions of our liues are stai∣ned; which by earnest repen¦tance mercy doth restore to life againe in them, whom sin had made the children of death. But infidelity, ex∣treame despaire, hatred of God, and all goodnesse, ob∣duration in sin, &c. doth not stand where there is the least sparke of faith, hope, loue, and sanctity: euen as cold in the coldest degree cannot be
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where heate in the highest degree is found.* 1.5 It is true, no man liueth that sinnes not: Yet the man that is borne of God , hath a promise that the seed in him shal abide, which seede is a sure preseruatiue against obstinate heresie, & and pining discouragement of the heart: for greater and cleerer assurance we cannot haue of any thing then this, that from such sins foresaid, God shall preserue the righ∣teous as the apple of his eye for euer: for if the iustified erre (as hee may) and neuer come to vnderstand his er∣rour, God doth saue him through generall repētance; but if he fall into herisie, hee calleth him at one time or o∣ther by actuall repentance:
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Notes
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* 1.1
Num. 23, 19
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* 1.2
Col. 1, 23
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* 1.3
1 Tim. 2.15
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* 1.4
Ioh. 10.
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* 1.5
1 Ioh. 3, 9