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The
obieEfíon
urged
out
of
Ecclef:g.t.
añfrrered'.
merciful!
promifes, he
hath
giuen vino
vs
his
holy
fpirit
cry:.
Ttem.8.
.
ing
to
our
harts
Abbafather,anthriteeffing.
to
ur
frirtts
that xe
are
the
finis
of
God,
Rom.8. He hath
manifefled
his
loue
by
giuing
vs
his onelie forme, and
begetting
in
vs
by his
word
and
fpirit
a
liuelie
faith, whereby
wee may apply him and
alt
his benefits vnto
vs.
Whofoeuer
therefore beleeueth truly
in
lefusChrifl,
he may
be
aflured
of
Gods
loue and cuerlafling
Iohn
g.
i6.
life,according
;to
that
loh.3.16.,So
God loued the
world,rhat he
gaue
his
onehe
begottenfonce,
that
ts
hef
oener
beleeteeth
to hint
-
fhos
1d
not
per:Abut
haste
eueri'iîhng
lJ
fe.
If
therefore we beleeue
in Icfus
Chritl,we
need
not to
de
.
fpaire,,n-o
nor
to doubt
ofGods
loue and fauour towards
vs;
notWithtianding
our
vnworthincf e,nor
yet
in
regard
of
the
manifoldaflli&ions
which
God
icfiic
-eth on
vs,
neither
in
refpeót
ofthofe
manifold
infirmities
NR
hich
e
bew ray
kv1ii-
left
the hand
ofGod
is
vpon
vs
but
wee may fi)undly
and
af-
_.furedly
conclude
with
the
Apottle
Nut
Rom.
&.
_,.8.
a
n.
per-
.Rom.8.38.
fivaded
that
neither death
nor
li[e,
eor
Angels,
nor prwctpaltt
ies,
nor
ponrers
,nor
thivs
pre
fen
r,nor
thine
s
t
come,
39
Nor
he4ght
nor
depth,nor
any
other
creature;Labe
e
ule
to
fëpar ctevs
from
the
loue
of
God
xhich
is to
Chrift Iefus our Lord.
CHAP.
IIII.
.Of
Gods`
leEtion,
the
caufes,
fubieEF,obteEl
and
properties thereof.
Nd
fo
much concerning the
Flit
caufe
ofour
fat-
uation,namely Gods
loue
&
goodw ill,and
al-
fo
the temptations
ofSatan,
wherby he
labou-'
reth to
impugne our
affurance
thereof.
The
fe-
cond
-caufe is
Gods
free
eleChiô,
which procee-
deth
fr6
the other;for whom
he
loueth,thofe
he
eleCletlrvn-
to
euerlafling
life
and happines,it
being
an infeparable
fruite
ofloue
to
feeke
the
good
and
felicitie
of
the partie beloued.
EleóIion therefore
is
that
part
of
Gods
eternall and
immu-
table
decree,
whereby
of
his free loue
and
vndeferued grace
he
hath
preordained
fome
in
Chritt
vnto láluatio,
and
to
the
e