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the
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oast
o
fEcclef.9.T.
axfvered.
rr
Lafllie,the tempter
obiec`leth,
and
hath flirted
vp
his
wic-
ked
infiruments
the
enemies
of
Gods
truth to
defend,
that
though
we
are
not
wholly to
defpaire
of
Gods
loue,yet wee
mull
doubt
thereof
and to this
purpofe
they alleage
that
faying Eccle£9.1. which they
reade
thus
:
Ihaue
handled
all
theft
t
htvs
in
my
heart
that
i
night
carrtou
f
to
vnder/1and
: Iufit
and
v-,ife
men
and
their.Gcrkcs
are
in
the hand
of
God;
and
scot-
with
ftzanding,a
man
knoweth
not whether
be be
worthie
of
lore
or
h.
atred,but
al
thin74
are
kept
vncertaine
for
the
time to
come,
&Nc.
I
anfv
ere,
that ifGods
loue or
hatred did depend
vpon
our
ovine vnworthine%,.wee
might
\yell
doubt;
nay
I
will fay
more,wee might
iuflly defpaire of.his
grace
and:
good
will,
and certainly
affure
our
felues
that
we
were
hated
and
abhor-
red
ofGod;
for this,
ifany thing,
we
haue
deferued.But
the
truth
is,
that
as
Satan
tempting our
Sauie
ur, and
quoting
Scripture
for his
purpofe,
left out
that
which made
againfir
him;
fo
here
by
his
inllruments
afftulting
his
members,
he
addeth to
the Scriptures
that which
maketh
for h:m: for
nei-
ther
in
the
Hebrew, which
is
the
originall,nor
in
the
Greeke
tranflation
is
there
any
one
word
of
our
worthinclie
or vn-
worthineffe;but thus it
is in
thetcxt
as
it
is
truly tranflated
in
our
Bibles
;_,Noman
knoweth
either
loue
or
hatred
or all
that
is
before
them
:
and whereas
they
reade the
words
following
thus; But
all
th
ngs
are
1
ept
vncertain for
the
time
to
come,
they
moll
grofly depraue the
text, which
is
thus to
be read
as
wee
haue
it
tranflated;
A
l
l
thin
-.r
came
alike
to
a
l
l
,
a
n
d
t
h
e
f
a
m
e
con
-
dit,ón
-is
to
the
iulzz
andthe
wicked
;
and
thus alto doth eífriaa
C'llontanru,one
of
the
moll
learned among(( themfelues,
tranflate
it.
Neither
evil
their corrupt tranflati6
(land
with thefenfe and
truth
ofthe
place
:
for
as
he
faith, no man
knoweth whether,
he
be
worthie
ofloue,fo
alfo,that
no man
knoweth whether
he
be
worthie
of
hatred
but
this
is
vtterly
falfe;for
fo
fhould
we
fay
that
we
could
not know whether
the Sodomites
for
th
:ir
ftlthinefle,
the Canaanites
for
their idolatrie,
Iuliaí
for
his Apoflafie were
vvor-
-thie
to bee
hated
of
God;whereas
the
S-
riptures
wirneffe
the
cleane
contrarie,
and.
eúen
they
tleïniciues
do
confeffe,
that
they
who
defperatelygive
cuer:
the;nfelues
§.Sea.
I
o.
Meohietlion
eut
ofEcelerßß
t.anjtvered,