Obieiion.r takenfrom teffimonier4PScripttsre,anfrrered. 699 but onely.maketh agratiouspromife oflife and faluation to thole that doe perfeuere to the end, that hereby they may be incouraged and confirmed in their perfeuerance. Thefeuenth place obieóled is Luk.t 8.1 3. Bret they that are theflones, are theywhich when theyhaue heard,receiue theword with joy ; but they haste no roots,whichforawhilebeleene,but in the timeof tentation doe away. From which place they thus. reafon: Theythatheave and receiue the word with ioyand beleeue,may fall away:but fuchhaue truc faith; and therfore fome that haue true faith ;nay fall away. .I anfwere, that the, afiitmption,natnely,that thefe heredefcribed hauetrue faith, . is:falfe; neither are thefe the infeparable propertiesofa true, liuely and iuflifying faith, but common with the temporary faith,which is the faithofhypocrites: fornot onlythe faith_ full attd ele6' doeheaveand receiue the wordwithioy, and alfobeleeue, that is, after an hifloricall manner giue their aífent vnto it, but alto hypocrits and reprobates, as the A- poflle fheweth,Heb. 6 4..1. But it will bee ,obieóIed that Chrifihere fpeaketh oftrue faith, feeing he faith that they beleeue, and therefore they want not faith, but onelie perfeuerance. I anfwere, that as faith it felfe is of diuers kinds, foalfo there;are diuers kindes of beleeuing, accor- ding to the feuerall forts of faith, whereof they are ads. There is a generali faith, whole ad is generally to be- leeue and giue alfent to the -truthof the Scriptures; there is a temporarie faith, which not onely giueth affent, but alto conceiueth force kindofioy in that which it- beleeueth; and there is a true iullifying faith, which not onely affenteth to the truth,butalfo apprehet3deth and applieth that which it Dbeleeueth to the vfeand benefit of the beleeucr. Though therefore the temporariefaithbeleeueth, that is,affenteth to the-dodrine offaith asbeing true, and fheweth it felfe in an outwardprofeflion, and is ioyned with a reioycing in that truthwhich it beleeueth and profefleth, yet are there diuers things wanting in it,whichare the life and foule oftrue iufli- fyingfaith ; forfirf} this liuely faith bringeth forth the ripe fruits oftrue godlinefle, but this temporarie faith nothing elfe,but theblade ofan outward profefiìon. Secondly, the true §.Set7.3. Luk tR.c; Oftbe dirers kindsoffaith. Heb.6.4. 5. Ofthe diffe- rence betweene temporarie and iußifying faith.
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