223 / 772
Tiro
obieEtionsQgain/?
theaffurance
ofelenionanfireYed.
ïg¡
faith
is
finne.
Rom.14.2
3
.
And
without
faith iris
inmpofble
to
Heb.it.d,
pleat
good,
Heb.i
1.6.
Iftherefore
we
cannot
be
affured
that
we
haue
faith,we
can haue
no
affurance
that ourbeft
aáìions,
our
calling
vponGods
name, our
hearing
ofhis
word, and
all
other
duties
of
pietie
and
iuflice,
are
`any
better than
finnes,
and odious
in
Gods
fight
:
whereof
it mull
needs
fol-
low that
thefe
aélions,how good
foeuer in
themfelues,
will
bee done
of
vs
in
doubting,
becaufe wee
know
not
whether
they be done
in
faith
;
and
being
done
doubtinglie
they
be-
come
finnes
indeede,
and therefore difpleafing
in
Gods
fight. Lafily,if
I
can
know whether I
beleeue
a
man upon his
word,and,whether
!
trutl
and
relie my
fenfe
upon his
promife
or
no
;
why
may
I not
much more
knowwhether
I beleeue
Gods
gracious
promifes made
vnto
all
repentant
fanners,
and amongft the
refs
unto
my fell,
namelie,
that
for the
obe-
dience
and merits
of
Chrift,
I
íhall
haue remiflion
of
my
Ewes
and
.eu.erla.fling'life-
?'teeing
this faith
is
not
out
of
our
felues,
'buta
gift
of
God wrought
-in
vs
by
his
holie
fpirit,
which
is
not
idle
in vs,
for
it
purifieth
the heartjand
worketh
by loue; it
mooueth
vs
to
hate
and
flie
from
thofe
finnes
we
haue loued,and to
imbrace
and
loue
that
holineffe
and
righ-
tcoufheffe
oflife,which heretofore hath bin
loathfome
vnto
vs. As
therefore
the
fire
is
knowne by
his
heate,-the funne
by the
light,
the
good
tree
by
his fruites,
-fo
when
our cold
hearts
are
inflamed
with the loue
of
God,and
a
feruent ueale
ofhis glorie, when
our-
blind
vnderfiandings
are
inlightned
with
the
-
knowledge
of
God,
and
of
the truereligion, when
wee
bring
forth the
fruites
of
our
profeflion in a
godlie
and
Chriftian
life,then
may
wee certainelie
know
that
we
arein-
dued
with
a
true
andliuely
fnith.
But here the
tempter will take
occafion
to
perfwade the 4.Sec7.7.
weake
Chriflian
and
the
troubled
confcience,that-he
hath no
temptation
faith, feting
he
doth
not
certainely
know that
he
bath
it,nor
g>
waded
vpoz
difcerneth thefe
-
frgnes
and
fruites
of
faith
in himfelfe.
To
fa
e.
this fuggcihon-wee
are
to
anfwere,
that
we doe
not
fay
that
fevered,
the wcake Chriflian
may
beaffured at
all
times,
that
he
hath
faith by
his
prefent fenfe; for
fiat
when we
are
newly con-
verted,
and
the
feedes
of
faith are,fownein our hearts,
we
do
0
2
r10í