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Obíe
ions 4gaiinflperfeuer'ance
taken
from
examples
An':
fan&ified,
and
make
Phew
ofreligion
and
outward
fan
&ifi_.
cation;
and this
is
before
men, who
call fuch
iuil
and holy
in
refpe6I
of
their nape, and
in
the
iudgement
ofcharitie;
in
the
other
refpeé
men
are
truely and properly
Paid
to
bee iuíl
and
holie,
in the fight and
iudgement
ofGod,
when
as
they
are
fo
indeede and
truth,
and
not
in
outward
fhew only.
The
reafon
of
this
dif}in6lion is,
that
men cannot
fe-arch
the
heart,and therefore according
to
the
rule
of
charitic,
mu($
judge
well
of
thole
v
ho make
a
good
fhew,though
they
be
hypocrites,ifthey
haue
not
difcouered
their
hypocrifie.;
but
God
feeth
not
as
man
feeth,
but
he
fearcheth
and trieth
the
very heart
and
reines.
Now
to
applie
thisdiflii
lion,
the
A.
poflle
being
a
man, and
writing
vnto men,fpeaketh not
ac-
cording to
the fecret
iudgement
of
God,
but that
profeffing
themfelues
the Church,
and people
of
God,
they
were
to
be
reputed
in
the iudgement
ofcharitie
iuíl and holy.
The third
example
obie
&ed is
of
the
Galathians, whom
they
affirme
to
haue had faith and iuflification, and after-
wards to
haue
loft this faith, and
faille
from grace,
becaufe
they
were caried
away
with the
do
&rine
of
the
falfe
apofiles
as
though
they had bin
bewitched,
as
the Apoflle affirmeth.
This
obieaion
is
all
one
with
the former, and therefore
I
will not
í}and
vpon
it.
Briefly
I
anfwere,
that
as all
the
Ga
lathians
were
not
iuilified and
indued with
true faith,
fo all
did
not
imbrace
the
do&rine
of
the
falfe
Apoftles. And
therefore this accufation
belonging
properly
to
the
hypo
-
crits
and unregenerate (although
in
refpea
of
their
focietie
and neere
communion,itbedireeled
to the
Church in gene_
rail,
as
being
all
of
one
bodie) doth
not
touch thofe
who
were
indued
with
true faith and
regenerate,and.confequent-
ly.impugneth
not
their
perfeuerance.
Lafllie, they obie& the
example
of
Nicolar
the
Deacon,-
fpoken
ofA6.6.5;
froïn which they thus conclude
Micolas
the Deacon
loft
his
faith,and
fell
from
grace:
Nicolas
the Deacon
was iuflified and
regenerate
:
Therefore
fome iuflified and
regenerate,
lofe
their
faiths
and
fall from grace.
Tie
propofition they
prooue,
becaufe
he
was
the author
and.
g;áec.I
Y.
The
example
ofthn
Galathi-
amt
§.Ser
.12.
The
example
ofNicolazsthe
Deacon.
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