698 ObicElions take,nfro tateffimoniej ofScripture,cmfwered. firfl,to the propofition, thatour Sauiour Chrifl doth not fay that thofe who arc indued with true charitie,may haue it ex. tinguifhed,as the phrafe to waxe cold may feeme to prooue; but hee faith, that the loue of many fhall bee cold, that is,they(hall be deflitute ofthisgrace ofloue,and that which theyhaue not they cannot lofe. Secondlie,I anfwere to the affumption, that it is falfe, and receiueth no confirmation from this place ; for our Sauiour faith not,the true charitieof the elecqfhall be cold,but that the charitieofmany,that is, the loue ofhypocrites to the Gofpell, whereof they once made outwardprofeflion,which wasgrounded vpon carnali and worldlyrefpeóìs,(hould becold when they law itperfe- cuted, and when they were feduced by the falleProphets. Andoffuch he fpeaketh, vent, to. where he faith that many fhouldbe offended,when they fhould fee thegrieuous per- fecution which fhould bee railed againfl the Gofpell, and fhould betray one another: which cannot be vnderfloodof the faithfull,but of hypocrites, who made profeffionofthe truth for worldly refpecgs;which failing,theirprofeflìonand loue towards the truth alfofailed.Laflly, though this fhould bevnderflood ofthe eleó}, and that it fhould bee thus read that their loue should waxecold,yet this prooueth not that their loue fhould be quite extinguifhed andperifh,but onlie that through the iniquitie of-the times it fhould languifh and decreafe. But they further obie6, that it is Paid in the verfe following, that he whoindureth to the endfhallbefaced; bywhich,fay they,is implied that force fhall not indure to the end, and therefore fhall be condemned. Iánfwere,firft, that all this being rightlie vnderfloodmay bee granted; for our Sauiour here fpeaketh not ofperfeuerance in the fans.+. -fying graces ofhis fpirit,-but of continuing and induring in the profeílìonofhis Gofpell, notwithflanding the great per- fecutions which fhouldbe railedagainfl theprofefl'ors there. of which hypocrites, who loue the world better then Gods truth fhouldnot doe, and therefore fhould bee condemned. Secondly I. anfwere, that though this were to be vnderflood ofperfeuerance in grace. it mnakethnothingagainfl it:for our Sauiour faithnot that_fome ofthe Elea (hall not perfeuere, -but
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