Quest.
If you ask me, How must we do things in Faith?
Heaven won by violence, or, A treatise upon Mat. 11, 12 compendiously containing very nigh the whole body of practical divinity : and shewing vvhat a sacred violence is, and how it must be used and offered in believing, repenting, and all the duties of your high calling : together with a new and living way of dying, upon Heb. 11:1 added thereunto / by Christopher Jelinger ; and published, with the dedications thereof, by some Christian friends.
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- Heaven won by violence, or, A treatise upon Mat. 11, 12 compendiously containing very nigh the whole body of practical divinity : and shewing vvhat a sacred violence is, and how it must be used and offered in believing, repenting, and all the duties of your high calling : together with a new and living way of dying, upon Heb. 11:1 added thereunto / by Christopher Jelinger ; and published, with the dedications thereof, by some Christian friends.
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- Jelinger, Christopher.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- 1665.
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"Heaven won by violence, or, A treatise upon Mat. 11, 12 compendiously containing very nigh the whole body of practical divinity : and shewing vvhat a sacred violence is, and how it must be used and offered in believing, repenting, and all the duties of your high calling : together with a new and living way of dying, upon Heb. 11:1 added thereunto / by Christopher Jelinger ; and published, with the dedications thereof, by some Christian friends." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46736.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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Answ. Believing,
1. That God will assist you, as he hath promised you, Ezek. 36.27.
2. That he will accept of your good Deeds in and for Christ, in whom he is well pleased, Matth. 17.5.
3. That he will graciously re∣ward you, Heb. 11.6.
Of these three Acts of Faith, together with your good Works, make a Confection, like that of, 1st. Stacte, 2ly. Onicha, 3ly. Gal∣banum, and 4ly. pure Frankinsence, which after the art of the Apo∣thecary was to be made in the time of the Levitical Law, Exod. 30.34, 35. that it may yield a sweet savour unto the Lord, who
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takes delight in Faith, which must be the chief ingredient in so sweet a composition.