416 The fecondBooke ofDiuit?itie, CHAP. 8, r Rom.8.30. f Rom.S.J, c J.COY.IO.IZ, u a.Tohn ver.8. x Reuel.3.II. y Hcb.11.15 z , I.Tbef5. I y. 2 I.Tohn3.9. b Luke is.32. c Zeln17. and jeated in heauenly placer, r glorified, Vic. for the cer- taintie and vnd oubted aflurance of ir. And being iu- fiifiedby Faith, faith the Apoflle, We haue peacewith God; which could not poflìbly be,ifwe were not lure to cone tinue in the flare ofGrace.. As for thofe exhortations focommon in the Scripture, tHe that thinketh he f andetb, let him take heed lei hefall. x Looke toyourfeluei,that we lofe not the good things which wee haue wrought , but that we may receiue a full reward. z Holdfall that thou haft, that no man take away thy crowne. y Take heede that no man fall from the Grace of God. z wench not the Spirit : and fuch like whereby it fee- meth that the Spirit ofAdoption and San&ifacation,pro- per to Godschildren, may be lea : The anfwere to-them, and all other of that kinde , is Ihort and readie : They ferue to flirre vs. vp to watchful- nef a and diligence; and as the Apoile fpeaketh , to workeour faluation in feare and trembling; not to teach what is pcflible for xruc Belecuers to doe : for as God loth affure the faithfull,that theyThai perfeuer and hold onvnto the end : fo heebath appointed Exhortation and the Preaching of the Word , as a meanes whereby hee will nourifh this holy Fire in vs. But doe not the fronts and grieuous falls of Gods E- le& impeach the truth of this Do&rine ? Not a whit : fors the f ede ofGod abiding in them, maketh fkat they cannot finne totally and finally, without recouerie : but are at the length rayfed vp againe ; and in themeane time , their Faith and Grace is not extitté and gone, how fore foeuer it may bee fhaken; as is eui- dent to bee feene in Peter, whole finne beingofthat na- ture , that (the finne again({ the holy Ghoftc except) a greater can fcarcely be imagined, yet b his Faith, fup- ported by the Prayer of our Sauiour Chril. ( who hath t prayed in like fort for all that are his) in all that con- fli6t didnat faite. And Dauid, after his faa with Vriahs wife,
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