Nommonsw 536 CanfohtionsferPoch 41ddenotfeek theirfaith. vponhim for our faluation ; orthough prefentlywe fedenot this faith and repentance, yet ifeuer in former time wehaue dilcèrnedit in vs, that then we are receiued intoGods loue and favour, and therefore (hall haue his louecontii aedvnto vs vino the end, be made partakers of hisgratious promifes, and heiresofeuerlailing life ; for the promifes oftheGofpell are not reflrained to thofe who fcele their faith, but to thofe that haue fa.ith;not to thofewho fede that theydoebeleeue, but vnto thofe whodoe beleeue. . Neither is the not feelingofGods loue and fauoura good argument to prooue that we areout of his loue and fauour; or the apprehenfion ofhis wrath and anger in ourfenfe and feeling, a found reafon toperfwade vs that wee are fübiea to his wrathful' difpleafure ; feeing the beeing, of a thing, and the fenfible difcerning of the thing to bee,are diners; and therefore howfoeuer at fometimes they<concurre, yet oftentimes theyare feueredand difioyued : fo that the con- clutaon which is inferred negatiuely from the fenfes,to prooue the not beingoftheir obieEt, is notonely commonly falle, but an oftentimes abfurdand ridiculous;forexample, . fometimes we fee not the beams of the finìne,as in the night feafon,or when itiscouered with foine thickeblacke cloud; "ant Thal we herehence conclude that the funne fhineth not, norwill euer againe appeare vnto vs ? So the bright beames ofGods loue and fauour are fometimes hidden from vs in the night oftentations, and fo fhádowed with the cloud of our grieuous fins, that we cannotfenfibly difcerne them; but (hal we hence inferre, that there is no grace and mercy to be found with God, or thathe will*neuer againe make them Thinevpon vs?The one is as abfürd as the other, and 'both grofly fall: So fometimes the funne is eclipfedby the inter- potationofthe Moone,fo as wecannot difcerne his light, of verydimly; but ifany man fhould conclude fromhence that itwerequite taken away,or;that we were depriued-itterlyof his life-preferuing influence, the experience oftwoor three homes would fhew the fottifhweakenefle ofhis fenfible ar- gument : and fo in like manner, Gods fauourandloue are . foïnetimesfo,eclipfedwith .the.interpofition of forme great afió ions:. §,:Se61.4. That conclu- flans grounded vpon our rare, auoften faite. .1411bor '.
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