A54381:1346
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
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6.1 If so be that the godly find all these notable effects of the spirit feeble in them, and their Faith weak and faint, yet they must not doubt of their election; but they must know that God doth thus try them, and therefore they must not be dismayed: for a weak Faith is sufficient to engraft them into Christ.
6.1 If so be that the godly finde all these notable effects of the spirit feeble in them, and their Faith weak and faint, yet they must not doubt of their election; but they must know that God doth thus try them, and therefore they must not be dismayed: for a weak Faith is sufficient to engraf them into Christ.
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7.1 He that as yet feeleth none of these effects in his heart, must not upon this conclude himself to be reprobate, but he must endeavour by the reading of the word of God, and by the use of the Sacraments, and chiefly by fervent and ⟨p. 202⟩earnest prayer to come to an inward sense of the power of Christ drawing him to himself by his Spirit, and thus to come to an assurance of his redemption by Christs death and passion.
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