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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EXPLA.
The Spirit, as he is the re∣uealer of the mystery of our election vnto vs, so is he the earnest of the effect of Gods predestination, by the gift whereof, God giueth vnto vs, the certaine assurance of all the rest that remaineth to be giuen; for he is the pledge of the inheritance promised, & as a hand-writing or bond of assurance of euerlasting saluatiō, making vs the tem∣ple and house of God; being the worker of holinesse in vs, that hee may bring our bodies to eternity, and so the immortality of the Resurrecti∣on, whilest in himselfe he ac∣customes them to bee tem∣pered
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with heauenly vertue, & to bee accompanied with the diuine eternity of the ho∣ly Ghost. And this earnest God neuer taketh backe a∣gaine, because it is so the earnest of our inheritance vn∣till the redemption of the pos∣session;* 1.1 as that it is an earnest also, that in the meane time God stablishes vs in Christ, and that he hath created vs for this, namely, to clothe vs with immortality and eternall life; for God giuing earnest for the assurance of the end, doth thereby vnder∣take against all lets and im∣pediments, that should hin∣der the atchieuing of that, that is earnested thereby: and therefore the things pre∣sent, which thou hast attai∣ned
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already, doe assure vnto thee those things that are yet to come.