CHAP.9, of Wiredome,&c. 493 they vfed, vnto the whichhe elfe-where addeth certaine other Tackling and Harneffe, namely, Prayer, Watchful. nee, `Perfeuerance, I)tience, and fuch like, 6phef.6. i8. withall Prayer and Supplication , praying continually in the Spirit , and thereunto watching with all perfeueranceand fuppli"cation,&c. Heb. t 2.4.. With patience let vs runne the race that is fet before vs. And againe, k Foryee haue need k Heb.Io.3,6. of patience, that doing the will of God, yee may receiue the promfe. The fourth thing in this Confii&, is the Coale or Ma- fferie we fight for, towit, the maintenance and increafe of Faith and San&ification,whichwe ffriue to vphold, Satan with all his forces for to (hake, cfpecially, ffriking at our Holineffe of lifc,that fo he may wound our Faith : Therefore Paul boaffeth of his keeping of the Faith, as of his winning of the Goale, for that handing, we (hall neuer fall :1 1 haue fought that goodfight, 1 have finifhed l z.Tim.4.7. thecourfe , 1 be kept theFaith : from henceforth there is laid vp for me a Crowne of Righteeufneffe, whichGod,that righteous budge fhall render vn in that day. And Chrili vtlto PETER, m 1 haue prayedfor thee, that thy. Faith m Luke 22.32; ATiould not fade. PAY L allo exhorteth the Philippians, n Wrefilefor the Faith of the G(lied , i.Tim.6.12. Fight n 8hil.r.7. the good fight ofFaith, or for the Faith ; as lude o exhor- o dude verf;: tetla thofe to whom he writes, to fizriuefor the Faithonce (for all, neuer to be loft) delivered to the Saints. He fl-riketh at our Holineffe or San&ification of life, byprouok:ng vs tofsnne,as occafion is offered,or ourowne difpofitiondoth moll incline : in regard whereof bee is called, P The Tempter, p Aáattle.4.z; For the off. dingof it, two flights he vfeth ; Fira , Leffsningof fnnes which men goe about to commit, tomake them feeme but light. . Secondly , Bringingmenaileepe with a prefumption of Gods mercies. This temptation we are to refiff : I i Firfi,
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