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V
ER.
Io.
Ephftanr,Chap.6.
787
of
command
and
promife.
3.
It doth
prevaile againft
all enemies.
This
is
the viétory thatovercometh theworld,
even our faith,
r
iohn
5.4.
The Ufe
(hall
be more particularly
branched
out
hereafter.Third.
l
y,we
muß
marke
how
the
Devill
doth
praelice againfi
us
in
this
point-J.1-1e
will
labour to
put upon us, and ferve
us
with
a
counterfeite faith.
You beleeve
that God
is
mercifull, and fent
his
Sonne
to
be
the
Savi-
our
of
mankinde: you
meane
well,and
have
good hope to God-ward,
that
is
enough; He that beleeveth
fhall be
Caved,
Marke 16. 16.
And
all
that
can be
Paid
for
the
Popifh
faith,
may be
brought hither.
4nfiv.
That
faith
that faveth
us,
mutt worke by love,
Gala:.5.6.
It
muff
purge our hearts,
Aar
15.9.
And he put
no difference
between
us
and
them,
after
that
by faith he had
purified
their hearts. It
muff
make us
to know, Chrift bath
given himfelfe for us. Galat.z.
zo.Thus
I
live, yet
not
I
now, but Chrift
liveth
in
me: and
in
that
I
now live,
I
live
by
the faith
in
the tonne
of God,
who hath
loved me, and given
himfelfe
for
me.
And bring Chrift into our harts.
Ephef3.17. That
Chrifl
may dwell
in
your hearts by faith;
that
ye being
rooted
and
grounded
in
love, &c.
f
Now,
to
have
a
faith
without good workes,
a
knowledge onely
of
a
Saviour given
to
man kinde
:
this will profit nothing.
iam.
2
14.
What
availeth it my
brethren,
thougha
man
fay he
bath
faith, when
he
bath
no
works!
can
the faith
fave
him,
&c. Secondly,
He will
la-
bour
towreft oar
faithfrom
us,
more violently or craftily
:
the
firft,
in
íM
this
wife;
Simon
cagua
beleeved,
Awls
8.
ir.
Herod,
&c.
Faith
in
temporifers
doth not
availe
them
:
that
faith
is
no
better, for
they
have done many
things,
had
joy,
kept
the
Apotllles
company,
and
gone
as
farre
as
thou.
Anfw.
We
waft
beare
of
this blow,
by
learning
to
diftinguifh
trae
faith
from falfe
faith,
by
faare things.
r.
For the
nature of
it
;
True
faith
Both apply
Chrift
in
particular, and faith,
with Paul
and Thomas,
My
Lord
and my
God.
Who
hath loved me,
and given
himfelfe for me.
Secondly,
it
doth
increafe
in
the miniftcry of the word
and
prayer,
whichdid
as
Gods inftruments, beget
it.
Now
falle prefumptions are
careleffe
of
thefe
helps.Thirdly,it
is
perfected
and
groweth
up
through
temptations, wraflling with doubting
feares.
For
if
our faith be
atrue
fruit
of
theípirit,
our lull
will fight againft
it,
though we
outgrow
thefe things,
in
proceffe
of
time. And therefore
it
is
to marked,
that
all
other
faiths,
the Devilt
never fifteth
them
:
for
cipher
they
are fuch
as
will not perfect
the
parties;
as
lofts, temptations, &c. or elle
fuch
as are his
owne coyne, bearing
his
infcription
:
as
for
example,
carnali
prefumption. And therefore
he
letteth them
paffe
for currant. Laftly,
a
true faith
is
feene by this effect, it
purgeth the heart,
fo
that
it
doth
not
retaine
the
love
of
any finne, wherein
it
hateth to he reformed
:
the
others come Ihort;
as Herods
did reach to many
things, but not
to
leave his Herodias.
Secondly, the
Devil! will thus
fhake
our faith;
True
faith
is
with
many
fruits, lam.
a. Is accompanied with joy, I
Pet.
I.
8.
Beleeving
we
óbjetl.
1.
objet!.
z.
Anfiv.
2.
3
4