V ER.14. Ephe/ans,Chap. i. 147 that I being juftified and called, fball alto be glorified : Ne ithdr could ` John with the faithfull beleeve Gods love toward them in particular, iffomeword did not Phew it : Neither will the Papifts fay that all of them were priviledgedwith fingular revelation: For though do word exprefly fay,thouThem,s beleeving (halt be faved,yetthat word which faith, every one beleeving fhall be raifedrep, that word faith, I beleeving /ha&beraifedup; Otherwife we 'might asks what word faith, thouTho- mas fhalt not kill, flute, &c. if thegenèrall did'not fufficiently contaiiie every particular perfon But it willbePaid, How doeyou know that you truly beleevea To a which I anfwer, comming to that fecondground,bya gift ofdiftinétion or underftanding, wee knowthefe things wrought in us by God, and by difcerning thefe things, wee are affured touching that full falvation promifed to us. Firft , that wee may know them, then that thefe knowne doe furtheraffure us. Paul did know on whom he had belee- ved ; How could we fayevery one,we beleeve, if we might not know it a Canwefpeake that trulywhereofwecan have no certainty e Third- ly, when I feeone,or truft to any, promifingme this or that, I know I fee him and truft to him, reft on him for that he bath promifed : Shall I by faith fee Chrift the Sonne, and reft on him, and yet know no fuch thing a Wee mayknow we have force kinde offaith, but not that we have the true lively faith. Anf.S'. Paul bids us, to try andprove ourfelves whether wehavenot thatfaith,bywhich Chrifl dwelleth in our hearts, which is the faith of fuch as are accepted with God, 2 Cor. 13.5,6. Now tobid me make fearch and examination for that which cannot be found out were ridiculous. Our love to God and our brethren, by which weknow our (elves tranflated.from death to life, wee may knowalto. Saint John maketh it a figne of our being tranflared ; Ergo, it may be knowne. Signes manifefting other things , mutt themfelves be more manifeft. Secondly, heethat may know he bath true faith, may know priori, that he bath love alto : for love is in true faith as the fruit in theroot, fromwhich it fpringeth: Wee love God when nowWee have found that he loveth us firft. Now by faith we perceiveGod tobeare us love, and be reconciled, for God doth offer his love to mee belee- ving. Againe, if I love men; I know my love to them, yea, and in what degree I beare them love: Shall I love God to the denying ofmy earthly profit, yea my life often, and not be able to know that I love him e Were this true, when Chrift asked Peter, Lovell thou me l bee fhouldhave anfwered, Lord, thouknoweft wee cannot tell truelÿ whe- ther wee love thee. Againe, Saint John faith, By this Wee know that wee love him, ifwee keepehiscommandements. If 'any fay weknowe that we havea naturali love, but wee are not fore that we have this Chriftian love.Againe,many Chriftians thinke theynhave true love,yea Peter him- (elfe was deceived inhis love. Anfwer.The loveofameere natural! man toGod,is as like Chriftianlove, as an apple is like an oyfter ; and there- forewepaffeby it.Chriftiansareeither enlightnedonely,& not faniti- fied,or fan lified alfo with their enlightning:The formermay thinktheft 0 a felves
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