A15859:170
Speculum Christianum
Speculum Christianum or, A Christian survey for the conscience Containing, three tractates of that eminent, grave, and learned divine, master Hierome Zanchius. 1. Of the end of the world. 2. Of the perseverance of the saints. 3. A summary abridgement of his protections. Englished for the good of Gods church, and for a warning to wicked and impenitent men. By H.N.Speculum Christianum or, A Christian suruey for the conscience Containing, three tractates of that eminent, graue, and learned diuine, maister Hierome Zanchius. 1. Of the end of the world. 2. Of the perseuerance of the saints. 3. A summarie abridgement of his protections. Englished for the good of Gods church, and for a warning to wicked and impenitent men. By H.N.
London: printed by George Eld, 1614
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yet this withal ⟨p. 151⟩is most true and certain, That the Saints being fallen, though but by infirmity, into any sin, the new remission of that new sin, without a new Act of faith, and true repentance, that is, without a new knowledge & apprehension of faith, cannot again understand and perceive that new sin to be remitted unto them▪ the Father to be reconciled unto them, and the punishment due to sin to be remitted. For this is an Axiom most infallible in Christian Religion. New sin to stand in need of new remission, and new remission to be attained by new faith, that is, a new Act of faith apprehending that remission.
yet this withall ⟨p. 151⟩is most true and certaine, That the Saints being fallen, though but by infirmitie, into any sinne, the new remission of that new sinne, without a new Act of faith, and true repentance, that is, without a new knowledge & apprehension of faith, cannot againe vnderstand and perceiue that new sinne to be remitted vnto them▪ the Father to be reconciled vnto them, and the punishment due to sinne to bee remitted. For this is an A•iome most infallible in Christian Religion. New sin to stand in neede of new remission, and new remission to bee attained by new faith, that is, a new Act of faith apprehending that remission.
Neither yet is the Question, whether the Saints by these their sins do disturb, that is, as the Apostle speaketh Ephes. •. do make sad, both the Holy Spirit dwelling within them, as also their own Spirit, that is, the inward man. For this is a thing confessed, and all the Saints ⟨p. 152⟩do feel it when they sin and after they sin, that their spirit, mind and conscience is troubled & wounded: for (as it were) a certain violence is offered to the spirit and conscience when we sin by co sent. From thence ariseth perturb tion of mind. Now because the Holy Spirit inhabiting in the hea of the godly, and guiding and […] porting the inward man, from […] it cometh to pass, that our spirit being disturbed, that is, the […] regenerate and inward, the Holy Spirit inhabiting, is also by Paul said to be grieved, by a form speech borrowed from men. For thi disturbance David likewise complaineth