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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 3, 2024.
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as many euident cleare vn∣doubted signes of Gods re∣conciled loue towards vs, as there are yeeres, yea dayes, yea houres past ouer our heads; all these set toge∣ther, haue not such force to confirme our faith, as the losse, and sometimes the on∣ly feare of losing a little transitory goods, credit, ho∣nor, or fauour of men: a smal calamity or a matter of nothing, can bre••d a con∣ceit, and such a conceit, as cannot easily be remoued; as that we are cleane cast out of Gods Booke,* 1.1 that hee regar∣deth vs not; that hee looketh vpon others, but passeth by vs, like a stranger, to whom we are not knowne.
When we thinke, looking
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vpon others, and comparing them with our selues, Their tables are furnished day by day, earth & ashes is our bread▪ they sing to the Lute, their chil∣dren dance before them; our hearts are heauy in our bodyes as lead, our sighes are many, our teares doe wash our beds where∣in wee lye: the Sunne shineth faire vpon their foreheads, we are hanging like bottles i•• the smoake, cast into corn••rs, like sheards of a broken pot, &c: This is our great weaknesse, and policy of Satan, which maketh vs measure God and good things according to our corruptions, when there is no such thing.
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* 1.1
Psalm. 31.