CON. 68.
We must learn to streng∣then
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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our faith by experi∣ence which heretofore wee haue had of Gods great goodnesse towards vs.
EXPLA.
By those things you haue knowne performed, learne to hope for those things that are promised: if thou know∣est that thou hast receiued much, thou maist bee sure to receiue more; for to him that hath shall bee more giuen. When thou meditatest what thou wouldst haue, then search what thou hast had at Gods hāds; make this recko∣ning, that the benefits thou hast had, and hee bestoweth vpon thee, are bils obliga∣tory
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and sufficient sureties, that hee will bestow further: his present mercy is still a war∣rant of his future loue, because whom he loueth he loueth to the end.* 1.1
Notes
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* 1.1
Ioh. 13.