CHAP. 15. Generall Notes of Tryall whereby to know it.
I Hope none will be of∣fended with me, for let∣ting in more light into their hearts, to see them∣selves
A faithfull friend true to the soul: or The soules self-examination, preparing it self for the great triall of life or death eternall in the other world, in 86. quæries. Whereunto is added, the Christian jewell of faith, or the ready way to beleeve and be saved. By Timothy Rogers, minister of the church at Chappell in Essex.
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- A faithfull friend true to the soul: or The soules self-examination, preparing it self for the great triall of life or death eternall in the other world, in 86. quæries. Whereunto is added, the Christian jewell of faith, or the ready way to beleeve and be saved. By Timothy Rogers, minister of the church at Chappell in Essex.
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"A faithfull friend true to the soul: or The soules self-examination, preparing it self for the great triall of life or death eternall in the other world, in 86. quæries. Whereunto is added, the Christian jewell of faith, or the ready way to beleeve and be saved. By Timothy Rogers, minister of the church at Chappell in Essex." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91948.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
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the better by it. Thus then you may know whether you have this saving Faith.
1. If it hath something to shew for that which it beleeves concerning your Salvation, that is some word or writing from God to prove it to you, as one that is confident of a State of Land, or summe of Money belonging to him, will have something to shew for it.
2. If you be willing to prove and trie it your selfe, 2 Cor. 13.5. and wil∣ling that any body else should try it, yea the Lord
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himselfe, Psal. 139.23.
3. If there be a Spiritu∣all Struggling and Con∣flict in you betweene the flesh and Spirit, not, that between Conscience con∣vinced and will, as was in * 1.1 Pilate, but that, between the part regenerate and unregenerate, as was in Paul, Rom. 7.22, 23. which goes with an hatred of the flesh, and love of the Spirit, holding with the Spirit against the flesh, as true a Signe of our con∣ceiving Christ by Faith, as Rebekahs struggling was of her Conception.
4. If it grow, 2 Thes. 1.3.
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as a living Child, or Tree is knowne from a dead one by the growing of it.
Object. I feele not a Growth and stronger Be∣leeving, though I much desire it.
Ans. If you grow stron∣ger in desire, and endea∣vour, then it growes stronger inward and in the Root, though not to sight.
2. If it make you daily more conscionable and give you better warning of sin, as a Clock giving warning is known to goe on, though you cannot see it move forward.
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5. If it gaine by Oppo∣sition, and wax stronger by Resistance (as one by often wrastling growes more expert) and holds faster to Christ, as the Travellor being assaulted by stormy weather holds his Cloake the faster to him.
6. If your End and Aime in beleeving, be (not to sin more boldly and securely, for then it's naught, but) to be able by that meanes to leave sinning, and only to please GOD in all things, then well & good.
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* 1.1
Joh. 19.12. & 16.