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R.14.
Ephe
/ans,Cha
p.
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,yet
that word
which
faith,
every
one
beleeving fhall
be
rai
fed
rep,
that word
faith,
I
beleeving
/ha
&beraifedup; Otherwife
we 'might
asks
what
word
faith,
thou
Tho-
mas
fhalt
not kill,
flute,
&c. if the
genèrall
did'not
fufficiently
contaiiie
every particular perfon
But it willbe
Paid,
How doe
you know
that
you truly beleeve
a
To
a
which I anfwer, comming to
that
fecond
ground,by
a
gift
of
diftinétion
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
further
affure us.
Paul did know on
whom
he had belee-
ved ;
How
could we fayevery one,we beleeve, if we might
not
know
it
a
Can
wefpeake
that
truly
whereof
wecan have no certainty
e
Third-
ly, when
I fee
one,or
truft to any, promifing
me
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 may
know we have
force kinde
of
faith,
but
not
that
we
have
the true lively faith. Anf.S'.
Paul bids
us,
to
try
andprove
our
felves
whether
we
have
not
thatfaith,by
which
Chri
fl dwelleth
in
our
hearts,
which
is
the
faith
of
fuch
as
are accepted with
God,
2
Cor.
13.5,6.
Now
to
bid me make fearch and
examination for that which cannot be found
out were ridiculous.
Our
love
to
God
and
our
brethren, by which
we
know our
(elves
tranflated.from death
to
life, wee
may knowalto.
Saint
John
maketh
it
a
figne
of
our being tran
flared
;
Ergo,
it
may
be
knowne.
Signes manifefting
other
things
,
mutt themfelves be
more
manifeft.
Secondly, hee
that
may know he bath true
faith,
may know
priori,
that
he bath love alto
:
for love
is
in
true
faith as
the
fruit
in
the
root,
from
which
it
fpringeth:
Wee
love
God when now
Wee
have
found
that
he loveth
us
firft.
Now
by
faith we perceive
God to
beare
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
of
my
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
fhould
have anfwered,
Lord, thou
knoweft wee cannot tell truelÿ whe-
ther
wee love
thee. Againe,
Saint
John
faith,
By
this
Wee
know
that
wee
love
him,
if
wee keepe
hiscommandements.
If
'any fay weknowe
that
we
have
a
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
in
his love. Anfwer.The love
of
a
meere natural! man
to
God,is
as
like
Chriftianlove,
as
an apple
is
like an
oyfter
;
and
there-
forewepaffe
by it.Chriftians
are
either enlightnedonely,& not faniti-
fied,or
fan
lified alfo
with their enlightning:The former
may think
theft
0
a
felves