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ephefians
,Chap,t,
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fe
lye to have
love, not havingit but
becaufe
a
man dreaming, or
run-
ning upon force niiftake,may be deceived,fhall this prejudice,but that
a
man walking may judge truely of this
or that
which
is
before
him!
A
man that
hath
no
charity, thinketh
himfelfe
to
have it
;
therefore
may
not
one
that
bath it, judge infallibly that
he
hath
it
Now
for thofe
that
have it
as
Peter,
they may be deceived, not
in
judging limply
of
the
thing, but of the meafure
of
that which
is
circumftantiall
in
their
fpiri-
tuall life,
not
in
that which
is
fubftantiall.
Peter was
not
deceived
in
thinking
that
hee
had faith
and
love, but
in
perfuming above
his mea-
fure.
Thirdly,
wee
may know our workes,
which
are fruits growing
from
the
tree
of
grace in our hearts. S.
John
maketh them
fignes which
doe evidently
declare
love,
ergo,
they
are manifeft. He
who
knoweth
when
he Both finne and fwerve
from obeying
God,hee
may know how
farre he
obeyeth God
;
they who
doe fpiritually
obey
God,eyther
they
know
it,
or their confciences
are
not
privy
to
that they doe,
cannot
beare
witneffe and judge
of
that
they
doe;
but
this
is
falle.
Pails
con
-
fcience did teltifie
to him, that
he did walke in fimplicity, according
to the
Grace
of
God. True
it
is,
that for the
=fide,
the workes
of
unfanttified men
are like
to the workes
of
the fanttified, but they
are
without the
life and fpirit
which
is
in
the worke
ofa
true beleever,
to
which
he
is
no
leffe
privy,then to the
external! worke
which
commeth
from
him.
To
conclude; they who
have
the
teftimony
of
agood
con
-
fcience, may
know
that
they obey God
fncerely
:
But
Chriffians
may
have
the teftimony
of
good confciences.
Befide that?,
the
fpirit
Both
teachour
confciences
to
beare witneffe
of
the griefe
and
joy
we have,
and
fo
by
confequent
of
all
wee doe according to
good.
Now
the
confcience
as
through
faith fo defcerning
thefe
things,
doth
teftifie to
us
from thefe our falvation, which
he
hath promifed,
and
God
will
not forgetto
finifh
what
he
beginneth. Should
a
King promife
to
erect
force
Colledge,
and give liberal! maintenance
to Students
in
it,
wee
are certaine by
a
humane faith, that he willdoe
fuch
a
thing, though
it
be not begun ; but whennow the
foundations were in
laying,
then
we
fhould
not
onely
beleeve
his
purpofe, but
in
part know
it
by
that
we
faw
executed,
and
by
that
we law
in
execution, wee would
allure
our
felves
the thing
fhould be finifhed. But
here it will
beobjetted
that
though knowing thefe things we
might come
to
fee
our
felves
in
prefent
false
of
grace, yet we cannot
be lure
of
our falvation,
un-
leffe we
could know
that
our faith,
love,
and obedience, fhould per
-
fevere
to
the end.
To
this
I anfwer,
that the
Scripture could
not
fay
that
he
that
beleeveth
hash an everlafling life,
thatthere
is
no condem-
nation
to
them
that
are
in
Chrift,
did it
not
take our faith and
the
fruits.
of
it
to be fuch
,
from which we fhould never
fall,
through
the
power
of
God
;
and
this the
onfcience
commeth to know by
faith
in
God,
conceived
through
fuch
promifes
as
thefe
;
I
willmake
you walke
in
my
commandements ;
i
will
put
my
faare in
you
that
you
fhalinot
depart;
I
have
began
my
worke
, and
I
will perfell
it
in
you ;
I.
am author
and
frnifber
of thy
faith ;
it u
my
will
thou
fhouldefl
have
eternall
life,