EXPLA.
God hath said, I will con∣tinue my mercy for euer to∣wards them:* 1.1 so hath he like∣wise said, Their transgressions will I also punish with a rod: it cannot stand with any rea∣son
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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that wee should set the measure of our punishments, and prescribe to God how great or how long our suffe∣rings shold be; we are blind and altogether ignorant, what is best for vs: wee sue for many things very vnad∣uisedly, and vnwisely against our selues, thinking we aske fish, when indeed we craue a serpent; when we thinke wee aske that is good, and yet God seemeth slow to grant it, he denyes not, but defers our petitions, to the end we may learne to desire great things greatly.
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* 1.1
Psalm. 89.