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A10826 Spirituall encrease: or, Conclusions for pacifying the perplexed conscience of the weake Christian Robertson, Bartholomew, fl. 1620. 1621 (1621) STC 21098.7; ESTC S114561 50,019 237

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righteousnesse And all this is because wee should rest in full assurance of safety without feare or doubt because hee promised to preuent all occasions whence any feare should arise And so he deliuered them out of the hands of their enemies without feare and Christ died that he might deliuer them who for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage and now wee haue not receiued the spirit of bondage to feare any more but the spirit of adoption to cry abba Father for God hath not giuen vs the spirit of feare but of power and of loue and of a sound minde for there is no greater bondage then that feare when we are vncertaine what shall become of vs but he said Feare not little flocke for it is your Fathers pleasure to giue you the Kingdome Now that other commendable feare doth not shake assurance of saluation but the faithfull finding that in him doth gather the greater assurance to himselfe For the punishment of God is fearefull vnto him that dreades Gods iudgements abhorreth wicked courses laboureth in righteousnesse is strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and doe work their saluation with feare and trembling with humility and acknowledgement of their own frailety and neuer to commit themselues to themselues but to him who hath wrought all our workes for vs for by his owne might shall no man be strong Now there is difference betwixt absolute doubting weake assenting and interruption in assent with some feare for the seeds of all impiety land in the corruption of the heart whereby we are assaulted with doubt of the principall poynts of our beleefe the wisedome power iustice mercy of God yet do not wholly relinquish the assent thereof CON. 27. In application of our generall faith to particular occasions wee many times goe halting and lame and stagger somewhat at that whereof our faith should giue vs full assurance by the will of God EXPLA. Thus did Sarah cast doubt of Gods promise touching the hauing of a child who yet is said through faith to haue receiued strength to conceiue when she was past age because she iudged him faithfull that had promised Thus did Moses call in question the power of God as touching prouiding flesh for the people of Israel when God promised so to do So Dauid and Habacuck staggered as touching the prouidence of God and his care of the iust and righteous men So did the Disciples murmure concerning the Godhead of Christ and the hope of redemption by him which before they had imbraced surely when we look vnto our selues in our greatest perfections we are subiect to that amazed distraction as to say Who shall ascend into heauen as if Christ were not ascended to make way for vs and Who shall descend into the deepe as if Christ had not died to deliuer vs from thence we can neuer satisfie our selues how either to escape the one or to attaine the other CON. 28. They are not faithlesse which are weake in assenting to the truth EXPLA. As many as hold the foundation which is precious thogh they hold it but weakly and as it were with a slender thread although they frame many base and vnsutable things vpon it things that cannot abide the triall of fire yet shall they passe the fiery triall and be saued which indeed haue builded themselues vpon the Rocke which is the foundation of the Church CON. 29. The foundation of faith is not onely the generall ground whereupon we rest when wee beleeue the writings of the Prophets and Apostles but also it is the principall thing which is beleeued that is Christ. EXPLA. There is a foundation of our faith God manifested in the flesh iustified in the Spirit and this Thou art the Sonne of the liuing God thou art the King of Israel and that of the inhabitants of Samaria This is Christ the Sauiour of the world Which who directly doth deny doth vtterly rase the very foundation of faith for Christ in the worke of mans saluation is all without our workes for hee is that seede in whom all the Nations of the world shall be blessed and among men there is giuen no other name vnder heauen whereby we must be saued other foundation can no man lay CON. 29. The holy Spirit in the very moment when first he is giuen of God bringeth with him infused vertues proper and peculiar to the Saincts of God EXPLA. There bee two kindes of christian righteousnesse the one without vs which wee haue by imputation the other in vs which consisteth of Faith Hope and Charity as Abraham had not onely the one because the things beleeued was imputed to him for righteousnesse but also the other because he offered vp his son They are both Gods gifts and the first by accepting vs for righteous in Christ and the second by working christian righteousnesse in vs by the spirit of adoption which we haue receiued into our hearts which maketh two kindes of sanctifying righteousnesse habituall and actuall CON. 30. The wicked haue not such faith as that wherewith a Christian man is iustified EXPLA. It is the Spirit of God which worketh faith in the Elect the things which they beleeue are not apprehended onely as true but also as good and that to vs as good they are not apprehended by the wicked as true they are The Christian the more hee increaseth in faith the more his ioy and comfort aboundeth but they the more sure they are of the truth the more they quake and tremble at it for the wicked doe rather wish that they might then thinke that they shall ceasse when they ceasse to liue because they hold it better that death should consume them into nothing then God reuiue them vnto punishment On the contrary to the Elect there is no grief nor torment greater then to feele their perswasion weake in things whereof when they are perswaded they reape such comfort and ioy of the Spirit CON. 31. Faith giueth vs the comfort of saluation because it beleeueth that which the word of God hath deliuered concerning them in whom the signes marks of our Election are found EXPLA. Faith giueth assurance of saluation by the Word of God not only by apprehending the promise of life and saluation but also obseruing such marks and tokens as the Word of God setteth down to discerne them vnto whom this saluation doth appertaine and therefore it doth not onely looke to that which Christ saith that whosoeuer beleeueth shall haue euerlasting life but because Christ also saith hee that is of God heareth Gods word therefore the faithful man delighteth in the word of God beleeueth concerning himselfe that he is of God because the Apostle saith Euery one that calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saued and this also doth the faithfull man vnfaignedly calling on the name of
Apostle I know whom I haue beleeued and I am sure that hee is able to keepe that which I haue committed vnto him against that day euen my selfe my faith my hope my prayer my soule my life knowing my selfe to be a very vnsure keeper of my selfe Thus faith yeeldeth a man to say Behold O Lord for I am thy seruant I am thy seruant O giue me vnderstanding that I may keepe thy commandements enter not into iudgement with thy seruant And because the faithfull is willing to beleeue that hee shall haue that that hee prayeth for hee prayeth for perseuerance because Christ saith Beleeue that yee shall haue it and it shall bee done vnto you For God giueth to them that beleeue so that hee that receiues beleeueth himselfe to receiue For this is the assurance that we haue in him that if we aske any thing according to his will he heareth vs and if we know that hee heareth vs whatsoeuer we aske wee know that we haue the petitions that we haue desired of him CON. 42. God euen in the very first entrance to his seruice offereth vs assurance of his favour and our saluation EXPLA. At the first entrance hee saith to thee as to the Iaylor Beleeue in the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shall be saved And from the beginning as our faith is greater or lesse so either strongly or weakely apprehendeth and embraceth this assurance and in this assurance we labour and endeauour to grow and to goe on from faith to faith from strength to strength till wee learne to set the world at defiance saying Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ CON. 43. Our faithfull seruice or good behauiour can neuer make vs assured of our saluation EXPLA. God made that promise by former couenant Hee that doth these things shall liue in them and it auailed not for they continued not in my couenant And I regarded them not saith the Lord. Therefore the Lord made another couenant or promise not like the former or conditionall vpon faithfull seruice or good behauiour but absolute and without condition the performance whereof should depend wholly and onely vpon mercy So that he would not expect as of vs but doth vndertake to giue vs and to worke in vs whatsoeuer faithfull seruice and good behauiour should be necessary thereunto Therefore he saith I wil put my Law in their minds and in their hearts will I write them and I will bee their God and they shal be my people they shal all know me for I will be mercifull to their vnrighteousnesse and I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more And so if wee intirely consider the whole worke of our saluation it issueth absolutely out of the purpose and promise of God who intending the end disposeth and worketh himselfe whatsoeuer belongeth to the accomplishment and attainement of the end CON. 44. By beleeuing the Gospel I beleeue that Christ is giuen a Sauiour vnto me to saue me being one of his people from my sinnes frō the wrath to come EXPLA. The Gospell is the glad tidings of great ioy that vnto vs a Sauiour is borne vnto vs a child is borne vnto vs a Son is giuen that is vnto vs that beleeue and how beleeue I vnto vs if I beleeue not vnto me The Gospell is that through the name of Christ euery one that beleeueth in him shall haue remission of sinnes euery one that beleeueth in him shall not perish but haue euerlasting life If I beleeue the Gospell I beleeue this For hee that beleeues not God makes him a lyar because hee beleeues not the record that God witnessed of his Sonne and this is the record that he hath giuen vnto vs eternall life and this life is in his Sonne If then I beleeue in the name of the Sonne of God and do not beleeue that God hath giuen me eternall life I make God a liar in not beleeuing the report that God hath witnessed of his Son Therefore he addeth These things haue I written vnto you that beleeue in the name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye haue life eternall CON. 45. Faith beleeueth the promises of God concerning our happinesse and hope waiteth and looketh for the Lord to reueale his righteousnesse and to make the truth of his word and promises fully to appeare and in this expectation is content with patience to beare the crosse which is incident to the profession of the name of Christ. EXPLA. Confidence and reioycing of hope groweth from the full assurance of faith whereby seeting aside the respect of our own impeachments of our selfe wee beleeue with Abraham vnder hope against hope resting vpon his promise who had taken vpon him to be the shepheard and Bishop of our soules and is able to doe exceeding abundantly aboue all that wee aske or thinke according to the power that worketh in vs. Whereby as he hath already wrought in vs the like great worke as hee hath wrought in Christ whē he raised him from the dead in that he hath raised vs vp being dead in sinnes and trespasses vnto the life of God So wee rest perswaded that hauing begunne this good worke in vs he will performe it vntill the day of Iesus Christ not for our sakes but for my owne sake will I doe it saith the Lord. CON. 46. Christ immediately and wholly is our saluation and righteousnesse in whom and not in our selues wee are made the righteousnes of God his obedience was wrought in our name and for our behalfe is imputed vnto vs by faith in his blood EXPLA. For Christs sake and in him God blessed vs with al spirituall blessings in heauenly things for he is made vnto v● of God wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption that is all in all that hee that reioyced may reioyce onely in the Lord. And this saluation vnto which hee entitled vs by faith in Christ consisteth not onely in the remission of sins but also in destroying the body of sinne and restoring in vs the Image of God in righteousnesse and holinesse of truth hee hauing giuen himselfe to purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe and to make vnto himselfe a glorious Church not hauing spot or wrincle or any such thing And all this is begun and in doing but is not yet finished and done in vs it shall be fully perfected in vs at the Resurrection of the dead In the meane time he giueth not vnto vs a full immunity from sinne that he may take away from vs all reioycing in our selues that we may know at that day that not for the workes of righteousnesse which we haue done but of his owne mercy hee hath saued vs. And yet no man is iustified by the righteousnes of Christ who is not also sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.