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The
anfivere
to
theformer
temptation.
§.Sen.2.
Temporall
hè-
nefits
no
infal-
lible
fives
of
Gods loue.
40:
That
worldlingt
doe in
vaineprefume
of
Oods lone.
fore'
thOu
needeft
not to doubt
ofthe
reft,nor to
debarre
thy
fen'
of
thy
pleafures,
fpending
thy
time
in
feare
and
care,
to
the end thou
maift
get
the affurance
ofthat
which
thou
nee..
deft
not to
call
into
queflion.
And thus
doth the
diuell
fill
men
with
prefumption,
and
lull
them
afleepe in
carnall fecurity
to their
litter deftru6tion;
and
therfore
it
behooueth
vs
to
arme our
felues
againft
him,
that
we be
not circumuented.Andto
this
end
let
vs
confider
that Gods
loue
goeth not alone,
neither
is it-
idle in thofe
whom
he
louethibut
as
the
firf+
linke
of
a
chaine draweth
all
theteft of
the chaine
with it,fo the
loue
ofGod,
which
is
the
firft
caufe
ofour
faluation,
is
accompanied
with
all
the.othet
caufes
which
are
fubordinate thereunto
;
for whom
God
ueth,them
he eleð
;
whom
he
eleð.
thofe in
his
good
time
he calleth
;
whom
hee effeélnally
calleth,them
he
i
ufti-
fieth
;
and
whom
he inflifieth,
tilde
hee
fanéti.iieth
:
ifthere-
fore we be
not
fan&ified, we
are
not
innified
;
if
wee are
not
iuftified, we
are
not
called;
if
we are
not
called, we
can
hauè
no
affurance
that
wee are
ele6ted, nor yet
of
G ods loue and
fauour
;
and confequently whofoeuer
liue
in their
blind
norance,in their
infidelitie,and wallow
thernfelues
in
the
hl-
thie
puddle
of
their
finties,i,vithout any
true forrow for
thoffe
which
are
paft,or
any
good
purpofe
of
heart to
forfake
them
in the time
to
come, they
can haue no
afrurance
of
Gods
loue,but
are
rather
iuffly
to
feare left
they
are
in
the number
of
thofe
whom the Lord bath
eternally
reieaed,if
they con-
tinue
in
this
their
tniferable
anddefperate
efiate.
Neither
let
Satan
bewitch
them with
that
vaine
opinion
ofGods
loue
towards them,becat&
of
thofe generall be
ne-:
fits,which
like
the
raine and Sunne-fhine
are
beftowed
both
vpon the
good
and
bad;
for
what
in
this
refpe6t can
they
promife
more
to
theinfelues
than
Efau
and Saul?
Were
not
they created
men according
to Gods own
liknes?
Were
they
not
preferued
and nourifhed
b'
God,
and
that
more
liberal-
ly
than
many
ofGods
owne
children ?For
Elau had fomuch
that
he
profeffed
to
his
brother
Jacob
that
bee had enough,
and
was
attended
vpon by foure
hundred men.
And
was
not
Saul
a
mi
htie
King,who
had
all
at command
?
Were not
all
thofe