318 Genera11 directions for a .....msweadWoom -. Redeemer, lifted up as an Antitype to the brazen Serpent. for the everlafting cure of my wounded confcience, and reft upon him,and yet know no fuch thing Heart how cleare learned Auflin is for this internal! vill- a Mend nottrx fi_ b a Our faith, faith bee, is confpicuom to our owne minde. 0 des nofira confpi- Faith it jeIR is feene in the minde , although that which is be- Ca 3 a eft, Einfi.x 'a. leevedbyfaith, is invifible. c e.4 man holds hisfaith by molt cer. bFides ipla mente taine knowledge, and plaine atteflation of confcience. d Every utique videtur, lbid.cap.z mansfees his Faith in bimfilfe,&c. Even c Durandau, taking c Earn fidem te- upon him toexpound oneofthole paffages in the fore.cited net certiffimarci- entil, clamitque place ofAuflin,tels us: That he whichbathfaith, i-s fo certaine confciencia. De that bee bath it , as bee is ofany other thing : for bee that be.. Trinitate./ ix.' 3. d Suam rgitur quirleeves, feeler that beebeleeves , andby confequent that bee bath quc `fidem spud faith, and there is nothing more certaine then experience , &c. feipfuns videt : in alter() au= cre- * Vegaes words alfo in theCouncell ofTrenr,found this way: dit elk eam, video tanto non eA nr- s bee that is hone, fare he isfo, andfhould want fence, ifbee minscredit,quan- doubted : fo bee that hathgrace in him, doth perceive it , and 2,isfutruvit,s qejuuossmc-a cannot doubt ; yet it is by the fenfe ofthe minde , net by divine perari .foiet fides revelation. ple2d.ionem ob. But ifthefe things be fo, how comes it to paffe, that d sea 'Nit dicere, Godsdeareft children complains fometimes , that they have quid habens fide, sta tenor eft fe nei ther , f h t nor fenfe of their faith ? habere ifiacei, ficut eAnfw. I fpeake of that which is ordinary, not ever. The coitus cunque alioerqc7c: Sunne in a cleare skie difcovers and manifefts it felfe with a tut fe credere, & ) though fometimes it bee over-caft with clouds , dens enim experi- witneffe . per corifequens ha or eclypfcdwith the Moons. Thisheavenly lamps of Faith bhcileautfiefimeneq cenir: (hales' and fhewes it felfe clearelyenough to the fanaified tius experientil heart, in the calmeneffe of a Chriflian courfe , and Cereni- lurio aliorum , ut ad quam fit refc- tie of the fouls ; efpecially frefhly cleared , and purged habeatur picnicr with fhowers,as it were, of penitent teares : though in the ce,tit23.g. 7. ado dampe of fpirituall defertion, darkeneffe of fome ftronger ..3.D. li }Vorie ofthe temptation , eclypfe qiearthly-mindedneffe , it may lye hb. z. pag. zots. hid and obfcured for a time. And yet for all this, if comiceuofTrepar. fFormat fibi Ido- Chriftians wouldbe counfelled , andbeleeve the Prophets : taso,nsfti, if they would not under-value Gods infinite mercie , by la de Deo, iniqui- r I & terrigilem, qui looking upon him through a flavifhly dejected and me- SerriA38.Cat. ett amabilis.Berx. lancholike hum= , f which is woont to reprefent him as
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