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not?
doubting
ofGods
losteic iniuriosta
te'him.
z
4I
and yet
all
the particular
men
in the citie
íhould thinke
themfelues
in his
difpleafure.
Saint
Paul
teacheth
vs
ano-
ther
leífon in his
owne perfon, faying
;
Ga1.2.2o.
Who
bath
lowed
meane4iuen
his
life
forme:
he
faith
not,who
hath-loued
and
giuen his life for the
Church,
but
for himfelfe.
Neither
Both
the Apoílle here
fpeake this
by
reuelation, whereby he
might
extraordinarilie
be
aihurcd
ofGods
loue
:
but
he
vfeth
for
his argument
a
reafon common
to
all
Chriflians
;
name
-
lie, that God
loued
him,
becaufe hee
had
giuen
himfelfe
to
death
for him
:
whofoeuer therefore beleeueth
with
Paul
:that
Chrifl
died
for
him,
may
bee
Allred
alfo
with
him
of
Gods
loue.
Secondlie,if
we
doe
not
beleeue
that
God
loueth
vs,
wee
make hint
a
liar, for
he
hath
profeffed his
loue, and giuen
vs
many tel
thereof
in
his
word, neither doth
hee
re-
quire
any
condition at our hands
but that
we beleeue
him.
For
his
merciful'
promifes doe
not
exclude
any for
their vn-
worthinefhe,
but
for
their
vnbeleefe
:
according to
that,Iohn
3./6.
So God
lowed
t he world,
that
beegame
his aneke begotten
fonne,
that
whofoeuerbeleeueth in him
fhauldnot
perifh.6ut bane
euerla/linglife.
Seeing then
there
is
no other condition
re-
quired'but
faith
for
the
alfurance
of
Gods
loue and euerla-
fling life;
fiirelie
moll
defperatelie doe we
finne
again
íl
our
ovine foules,
and
mot+blafphemouílie againfl
God,ifwe
wil
not
beleeue his
word
confirmed
by
his
feale,
no
not
his
oath
whereby
he
hath
ratified his
couenant betweene
him and vs,
but
make
him,who
is
truth it
felfe, a
liar,a couenant breaker,
yea,
a
periured perfon.
For-fo
the
ApoilIe
fpeaketh,i,Iohn
5.1o.
He
that
beleeueth
not
Cod,
bath
made
him
a
liar,becaufe
hee
beleeued
not
the
record,
that
God
wttne
fed
of
his Sonne.
Though therefore
wee finne,
yet let
vs
not
thus blafpheme;
though
wee
be-grieuious
finners, and
vnworthie
Gods
loue,
yet let
vs
not
adde this
to
all
our others
finnes
and
vnworthi-
neffe,
to diflruíl
Gods truth
in his
gracious
promifes
:
for
if
we
put
all
our
other
finnes
into the
one fcole, and this a-
lone into
the
other,yet
will
it
weigh downe
all
the
refl.;
nei-
ther
are we
damned for
our
other
finnes,
if
we
doe
not
adde
unto
them infidelitie. For whereas the precious balme
of
L
our
G
al.
zae
§.Set7.y.
That
doubting
of Gods
loue,is
injurious
vnta
bim.
Ioh,;,
r6.
i.loh. s.io,