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Satans
temptations concerning Godi
eleEtion
anfivered.
rance,but
vpon
Gods good
pleafure
and foreknowledge
,for
it
is a
foundation
in
it
felfe firme
and Iiable,and bath not
the
feale
of
our
vvorthineffe
or
perfeuerance
in
grace,
but
of
Gods
foreknowledge whereby
he
knoweth who
arc
his.
CHAP.
V.
Satans
temptations
concerning
Gods
cicalas;
anfweyed,
and
fi;
f
thofe
wherewith
he
a
faulteth. carnall
worldling.
Ow
concerning
this decree
of
ële
%tion
and the
of
furance
thereof,
there
are
two
forts
of
Satans
temptations: the
firti
he fuggefleth
into
the minds
of
carnall
worldlings, to
nourifli
in
them fond prefumption
and
carnall fecuritie
:
the
other, into
the minds
ofweak
chri-
i{
ians,whereby
he rnoueth
them to
doubt
&
defpaire
oftheir
eleéiô
to
euerlafiing life.The worldly
ma he
atfaulteth
with
two
principal
temptations
:firti,he
perfwadeth him
that
there
isa
no
ele&ion at
al
or
reprobation,
but that
all in
the
end
that
be
1i
ued.
Which
groíiè abfurditie
that
hee may make more
pl-aufble and
probable,
hce
fetteth before them the
infinite
mercie
ofGod,
and the generali
promifes and
confolations
in the Gofpell:as,
that
he
will
net
the.deaEls
o
fa
fnner,and
that
he
will that
all
mesiriall
be
faued,in
both
places
cunningly dif-
femblingthat
which followeth
;
for.
to,
the
firti place
is
ad-
ded,
but
that
he
r'cpent,
and in
the
latter, that
they
who (hall be
famed
muf
alfo
come
to the
knowledge
of
the
truth.
But this
temptation
is
fo
palpablie
abfurd,
that it becom-
methnotSatans
policie to
vfc
it
to
any,
but
thole gnelie
tivhofe
hearts
arc
hardned, their
eyes
blinded, their
confci-
ences
feared,and
who hauing not
beleeued and loued the
truth,
are
giuen
ouer
ofGod
tobeleeue (lrongdeiufions;
and
therefore
Iwill
not
fpend much
time
in
anfwering it:
gnelie
let
fuck
men
as
are (educed
with
Satans,
lies
know
thus.much,
that Gods
mercie
is a
ilia
mercie,
as
his
iuflice
is..
a
nercifull iufüce
;
_that-
God
is
infinit in
both,
and
no
leife
glorifiedin
the rnanifeflation .ofthe
one
than
of
the
o.
ther.._Lexxhem k}iow.that
there
are
no
protnifes
of
the
Gof;
pelf,
Satans
temp-
tation
mbereby
he
pert
vad th
worldtings
that
all
in
the
end
(hall
be
farted,
anrwered.;
Ezech.;;.
and
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