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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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power in our weakenesse,* 1.1 his goodnesse in shewing vs mer∣cy, that are euill;* 1.2 his righte∣ousnesse in the confession of of our shame,* 1.3 God hath ap∣pointed vs to be for the glory of his grace, and therfore he dis∣poseth that no flesh shal reioyce in his presence,* 1.4 and that he one∣ly may be exalted in that day, and reioyce that we haue found mercy with the Lord,* 1.5 who co∣uereth our sinnes with the mantle of his righteousnes; who seeth no iniquity in Ia∣cob, nor beholds transgression in Israel. God seeth sinne with the eye of his knowledge, but by reason of that co∣uerture,* 1.6 will not see it with the eye of his iudgement: he seeth it with a discerning, but seeth it not with a re∣uenging
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eye: for the iustifi∣ed man delighteth in the Law of God as touching the inner man,* 1.7 yet hee hath still in his members the law of sinne han∣ging f••••st on, and lusting and rebelling against the Law of the spirit of life. For though he hath within him an army of vicious desires, yet hath hee a will and desire of righte∣ousnesse; hee hungreth and thirsteth, wayting to be sa∣tisfied, because according to his promise,* 1.8 wee looke for a new heauen, and a new earth, wher∣in righteousnesse dwelleth: the purpose of his life tendeth wholly to it, it is grieuance to him that he failed to per∣forme it, and maketh him to cry out,* 1.9 Wretched man that I am, who shall deliuer mee from
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the body of death? And there∣fore though he sinne, he sin∣neth not maliciously, pur∣posely, and with desire and delight in sinne; but of ig∣norance and infirmity, by occasion, and by the cree∣ping and stealing of sin vpon him.
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* 1.1
2. Cor, 12, 9
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* 1.2
Dan. 9, 7,
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* 1.3
Eph. 1.6
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* 1.4
1 Cor. 1, 29
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* 1.5
Is. 2.11.
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* 1.6
2 Tim. 1.18
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* 1.7
Rom. 7.23 Heb. 12, 1 Gal. 5, 17
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* 1.8
2. Pet. 3, 13 Mat. 5, 6
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* 1.9
Rom. 7, 24,