EXPLA.
If God did worke in vs like a naturall agent: as the fire doth inflame, and as the Sun enlightens, according to
Spirituall encrease: or, Conclusions for pacifying the perplexed conscience of the weake Christian
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- Title
- Spirituall encrease: or, Conclusions for pacifying the perplexed conscience of the weake Christian
- Author
- Robertson, Bartholomew, fl. 1620.
- Publication
- 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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the vttermost ability which they haue, to bring forth their effects, there should be nothing in the beleeuer but the incomprehensible wise∣dome of God, doth limit the effects of his power to such a measure, as seemeth best to himselfe. Wherefore he wor∣keth that certainty in all, which sufficeth abundantly to their saluation in the life to come: but to none so great as attaines in this life vnto perfection; which is fittest for vs, that feeling still our owne infir∣mities, we may alwaies pray, Lord helpe our incredulity: Lord increase our faith. In∣deed it is said, Abraham be∣leeued and doubted not; which Negation doth not exclude all feare, all doubting, but
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onely that which cannot stād with true faith; it freeth Abraham from doubting through infidelity, not from doubting through infirmity: from the doubting of vnbe∣leeuers, not of weake be∣leeuers, as is euident, Genes. 17.17.