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4.Secri.
d.
Our
owne wor-
ihine/f
'e
no
4auje
n
f
sur
jaluation.
Rom.6.z
?
Eph.i.8.
a.Tim.t.9.
714 That
our
vnworthines fhuldnot
male
vs
doubt
o
f
Gods
loses,
and
peaceable minde
labour
after
the
increafe
ofgrace, vfng
all
good
meanes
ordained
of
God
for this purpofe,fubmit-
ting
our felues,in
regard
of
meafure
ofgrace
which
wee
doe
d.efire;to
his
good
will and pleafure,who
will difpofe
of
all
fo,as !ball
be moil
for his
glory and
our
good.And
in any
cafe
let
vs
beware
that
wee doe
not
fo
impatiently
and
vio-
lently
defire increafe
of
more grace,
as
that
in the meane
time
we
forget to
be
thankfull to
God
for
that
we
haue,
tur-
ning
our longs ofpraifc for
Gods great
benefits, into mur-
muring
&
repining.
Let
vs
not be
like vnto
rich miters,
who
haue their
mmdes
fo
intent
vpon the
getting'of
that
riches
they
haue
not,as that
they forget
to
enioy'and
take comfort
.ofthat
they
haue;
let
vs
not
referable thofe vnthankfull men,
who
when they
haue
receiued
many benefits,doe
í1i11
delire
more, and when their
delires are
not
prefently fatisfied,vn-
gratefully
murmure
againtl their
benefaótors
as
though
they
had
receiued
nothing
:but let
vs
make
vfe
of
thofe
graces
which
we
hauereceiued to Gods glorie
and
our comfort;
let
vs
delire
more,that
we
may more glorifie him
with
his
owne
gifts; and
though
our
delires
be
not
prefently
fatisfied,
let
vs
not
fall
into
itnpatiencie,but
fubmit our
felues
vnto
his
good
will and
pleafure,
and be truly
thankful'
for
that portion
of
grace,
which
it
hath
pleafed
him
ofhis
abundant
mercie
to
bellowvponvs.
Lafily,our
faluation
it idle
dependeth not
vpon our owne
worthines,but vponGods
free
mercie
and vndeferued
loue;
for faluation
is
the
free
gift
ofGod,and
not the
wages
ofour
owne worthineffe,
as
death
is
the
wages
of
finne,
as
appea-
rethRom.6.2
3.
And
tree
are
faged
by
grace
through
faith,
and
that
not
ofour
f
lees;
it
is
the
sift
of
God,as
it
is
Eph.2.8.
And
the Apofile telleth
vs,Tit.2.r1. that
thegrace
of
God
bringeth
faluation,and
teachet
h
vs
to
dente
vngodbne
je
and
worldly
lulls,
and
that
wee'heuld
lice
foberly
and
rig
bteouJly
sndgodly
in this
prefent world: fo
that
our
forfaking
finne
and
embracing
ho-
line%
and righteoufneffe
is
not
the
caufe
of
our
faluation,
but the
grace
of God,
by
which
all thefe
effeìs
are alto
wrought
in
vs.
But
moll
plaine
is
that
of
the Apoille
2.Tim..
I.9.where
he excludeth
our owne works and
worthineffe,to
the