CON. 59.
Our saluation is giuen to vs by Christ alone, yet to our iustification faith, to our sanctification the fruites of the Spirit, &c. are necessary.
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,
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EXPLA.
For our saluation it is re∣quisite to be chosen and knowne of God, before the foundation of the world; in the world to bee called, iustified, sanctified; after wee haue left the world, to be receiued into glory. Now Christ in euery of these, hath somewhat which hee work∣eth alone, through him ac∣cording to the eternall pur∣pose of God before the foundation of the world, borne, crucified, buried, rai∣sed, &c. we were in a glo∣rious acceptation knowne vnto God long before wee were seene of men. God (I say) knew vs, loued vs, was kinde to vs in Christ Iesus, in him we were elected to bee
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heires of life. Thus God in Christ hath wrought in such sort alone, that our selues are meere patients, working no more then dead & sense∣lesse matter, wood, or stone, or iron, doth in the artificers hands; no more then the clay when the potter appointeth it to be framed for an hono∣rable vse: nay, not so much for the matter whereupon the tradesman worketh, he chooseth for the fitnesse which is in it, to serue his turne: in vs no such thing.
Now touching the rest, which is laide for the foun∣dation of our faith, impor∣teth further, that by him we are called, that wee haue re∣demption and remission of sins by his blood,* 1.1 health by his
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stripes, iustice by him: that he doth sanctifie his Church, and make it glorious to himselfe, that entrance into ioy shall be giuen by him alone; yea, al things by him alone, how∣beit not so by him alone, as if in vs, to our vocation the hearing of the Gospell; to our iustification faith; to our sanctification good workes; to entrance into rest, perse∣uerance in hope, in faith, in holinesse, were not necessa∣ry; which workes haue no power of satisfying God for sinne, or of vertue to merit both grace here, or glory in heauen; for workes are a thing subordinate, without which our sanctificatiō can∣not bee accomplished: yet God doth iustifie the belee∣uing
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man, not for the wor∣thinesse of his beleefe, but for the worthinesse of the person which is beleeued, that is, Christ; and God also rewardeth euery one that worketh, not for any meri∣torious dignity, that is or can bee in the worke, but throgh his mercy, by whose commandement hee work∣eth.
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* 1.1
Gal. 5.8.