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V
ER.30.
F,phe
/ans,
Chap.
q:.
56i
but
be
ill
for us;for
Heb.t3.
17. the holy
Ghoft
biddeth
us
obey
oryr
teachers,
for
they
watch
for
our
feals,,a
they
that
moll
give
account,
that
they may
giveit
with
joy,
and
not
with
grit
fe; if they be grieved,it
is
not
well for
us:
if
the
grieving men
be hurtful! to
us,
how great hurt doe
we our felves when our
God
is
grieved.
By
whomye
are
[taled
onto
the
day
of
Redemption.]
Now
followeth
the defèription of the Spirit from the fealing
of
us:
and firft
that we
are
Doti.
marked
to
redemption,
it
doth
teach us, The certainty
of
our
fálvatian,
our
falvation
how fsere we
are never
to
mifcarry.
For thofe that were
marked ,
iscerraine
as
Ecek.9.6.
the
Lords Charge
was
that
they
fhould
not
be
cou-
fealedby the
ched ,
and Exodus 12.
the !lodes that were marked, the deftroy-
SPrrrt.
ing Angel did
not
come
neere
them.
And things to which the
Seale
is
put,
are out
of
doubt
:
and truely the ftatc
of
Gods
chil-
dren
in
whom
is his
Spirit
is
fuch,
as
they never
can
totally nor
fi-
nally lofe this
Spirit;
For
it
is
an
everlafting life wherewith
they
I;
are
quickned, not
like
v4dams which
had
not
perfeverance added
to
it.
Againe, our head the fecond LÁIam
ie
a
quickning
Spirit,
fuch a
a;
one
who
doth
expel! death and give
himfelfeas
our head, and by
confequence
all his
members
fucha
life
as
cannot die.
Rom.
6.
io,
a
Cor.15.45
The
Devil!
is
ftinted at this,
that
he
(hall
not be
able
to hurt,un-
3,
le(fe
it be
the
keeleof Chrift,
Gen.
;.15. Now if
he
fhould
utterly
by temptations
putout the
life
of
God
in
them, he
fhould
wound them
at the heart.
But againft this collection
two
things may be objedìed.
t.
That
in
deed it
muff
be
true
which the
Spirit fealeth, and there-
objet-I.
fore
it
is
truethat they
(hall
finally
come
unto it
but yet they
may
fall
quite away
in
the
meane
while.
To
which
is
anfwered,that
if
they
could
totally
fall, they
fhould
fi-
Anf
Daily
fall
alfo.
2.
It
may
be
faid, that
thofe things are
true
that
the fpirit fealeth, objet?.
but true onely
in
that
manner it fealeth
them
;
Now
it
Both feale
our
redemption upon Condition that we belceve and
perfc-
vere.
Conditionall promiring doth not hurt the Certainty, but when
vinr:
the Condition
is
doubfull; now
the Condition
is
out
of
all
doubt,
for God
hath abfolutely
promifed
to
worke it
in
us; Theis
the au-
thor and
finiJber
of
Faith,
he will confirme
ass,
he
will
perfed
his
good works.
This
is
comfortable that
I
may
affure
my
confcience while
I
ftand
y
e.
that
(hall
have redcmption,becaufe
the
graces
of
the
Spirit
which
I
Which
do-
find,are
Gods mark,
and
the
feale
tome of
my falvation; This
is
corn-
Brine
is
fun
fortable when
I
(hall
fall
,
that
my fallscannot bring me under
death,
of-comfort'
feeingGod bath marked
me
to
eternal
life.
And this
doth not breed
fe-
Nor. dash
it
curity,but
as
the mercy
of
God,it
teacheththe
faithful foul
to fear,and
breed
f
«Griry.
as
the grace
of God,it
teacheth to
walk
godlily.Whereas
this doctrine
C
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that