CON. 63.
The faith whereby wee are iustified cannot faile.
EXPLA.
The seed of God, that is, the first grace which God powreth into the hearts of them that are incorporated into Christ, because it is an
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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aduersary vnto sinne: we do therefore thinke we sin not, but otherwise, by a distrust∣full and doubtful apprehen∣sion of that which stedfastly we ought to beleeue, we are amazed: yet they that are borne of God do neuer so sin, as it doth extinguish quite grace. Our faith when it is strongest is but weake, yet e∣uen then when it is at the weakest, is so strong, that vt∣terly it neuer faileth, it ne∣uer perisheth altogether, no not in them who thinke it extinguished in themselues: howbeit through extremi∣ty of griefe, many times in iudgement the Elect are so confounded, that they finde not themselues in thēselues; for that which dwelleth in
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their hearts they seeke: it a∣bideth, worketh in them, yet still they aske where; still they lament, as for a thing that is past finding; they mourne as Ra••hel and refuse to be comforted; as if that were not which indeede is, and as if that which is not, were; as if they did not be∣leeue when they doe; and as if they did despaire quite when they do not: For true∣ly, where faith maketh any doubt, there the sense is neuer satisfied.