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the
affilrance
o
f
elefion
at<favred.
193'
Lures
:
but I
am
a
man
;
therefore
I
am
a
reafonable creature:
it
is
rightlie
and truelie inferred.
Though
therefore the
pro
miles
ofthe
Gofpell
be
contained
in
generall propofitions,
byet
may euery faithful man
as
certainely
conclude,tha
t
they
elong
vnto him,
as
if
they
were particularlie applied
unto
himby name.For when
the
Lord
by his ambaffadors
maketh
1011.3,x6,,
this general propofition
in
the
preaching
ofthe
word;Who_
foeuer truelie beleeue
in
Chrifl,
they are
all ele
&ed
vnto
e4
uerlafling
life;
the faithfull hearer
maketh this
afhumption
in
his
minde,But
I
by
the
grace
ofGod,
and
by the preaching
cf
his
word
made
effe6tuall
by
his
Sptrit,
haue
a
true
faith
begotten
in
mee,wherebylbelceue
in
Chriflmy
Sauiour;
and
therefore
Gods
promife
oflife
and faluation
belongeth
veto
me.
And
thus allo
loth
the
confcience
ofman
out
of
the
generall
curies
of
the law conclude
that
hee
is
accurfed;
for when
the
law
deliuereth this propofition in generall,
Car/edit'
eatery one
?'ho
atbideth
not
t
all thin
y
h'ich
are
zrrit-
Dent,
7.2 .
ten in the
booke
ofthe
lav
to doe
them
;
euerie
particular man
Gal.3.
io.
maketh
this
affumption in
his
owne confcience, But
I
haue
not
continued
in
all
to doe
it,
nay
in
find
of
doing al,I
haue
negleéed
alI,
inf
cad of
continuing
in
obedience,
I
haue
been continuallie -difobedient;in
Bead
of
doing the
duties
commanded,
Ihaue
committed
the hones
forbidden, and
therefore
by the
fentence
of
the
law
I
am accurfed.
So
that
though'both
the threatnings
of
the law, and the
promifes
of
the Gofpell
be
generall and indefinite,
yet
Both-
.euery
mans
.confcience
truelie informed
byGods
word, gather out
of
them
moll
certaine
particular
conclufions.
But here the
tempter will
obiea
further;
it
is
true indeed
§,Set7.6.
that
euerie
faithfull tnan
may
applie
the generall
promifes
of
`That
zve
may
the
Gofpell
vnto
himfelfe,
but
all
the
queflion
is
whether
be
aj/urcd
:bat
thou
cant}
know
that thou haft
faith or no,fceing many who
a
ate
tt
he
continue
in
their infidelitie, bragge mofl
of
their faith.
I an-
f
bnm
t>>e
iwere,that
it
cannot be denied
but that
manic
arc
decciued,
promifes
oftlie
by contenting
themfelues
with their
carnal!
fecurity,in head
Go/jell
are
ofa
huelie faith
;
but
hence
it
followeth not,
that
becaufe
made,
many
are
deceiued with
an
opinion
offaith,
therefore thofe
that
beleeue indeede cannot be
affured
that they
haue faith;
o
no