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That
ire
mxy be
of
ured
o
f
our
eleliori.
i
99
ment
to
beleeue
that
Iefus
Chrifl
is
their
Sauiour and
Redee-
mer,
as
appeareth
i.Iohn
3.23.
and therefore they
are
vn-
doubtedly to beleeue,and
may
be allured
of
their
eleólion.
The
propofition
is
manifefl, feeing
all
thole
and
thole
onely
are faued
and redeemed by
Chriíl,
vho
are eledled
to
falua-
tioninGods
eternaildecrec.
The
affumption
is
mofl
cer-
taine,
for whereas
God
commaunds
vs
to
beleeue
in Iefus
Chrifl,
he
Both
not
onely enioyne
vs
to
beleeue
that
he
is
a
Sauiour
of
his
Church
in
general!, or
of
the
Patriarchs,
Pro-
phets,and
Apoflles
alone,
for this
alto
the
diueis' beleeue
as
well
as
we
but
we are
to beleeue
that
he
is
our Sauiour
and
Redeemer, and to
applie
a':1
the
promifes
of
life
and
faluati-
on
made
in
him,
particularly
v>>to
our
felues
;
for
otherwife
how fhculd
we
haue
that
afforance
of
faith, and
that bolde
confidence when
ve
approach
vnto the throne
of
grace,
which the Apotlie require
*_h
of
vs,
if
we
cannot be
fired
that
he
is
our Sauiour
and Redeemer,
in
whom
God loueth
and hath ele&ed vs?
Neither
!null
this faith and
affiirance
of
our
eleaien
anu
faluation
bernixt
with
doubting,
as
the
Papi[ls would beare
vs
in
hand,who
make
doubting not
a n
in ircnitie,bu`
a
com-
mendable
vertucoftheìr
faith
:for
faith
&dotîbtin
g
t
ough
they
are-
oftenmixt
in
Gods
children, yet
inrefpelcftheir
owne natures,they
are oppofed in
the
fcriptures one
aga
iníl
the other.
So
it
is
faid
of
Abrah
vn,that
he
doubted
not
of Gods
promife
through
vnbeleefe,
but
Your
frengthened
in
the
faith,
Rom.4.2o.
where the
Apofile
fheweth,
that
doubting
is a
fruits ofvnbeieefe,and
not
a
commendable
vertue;
nay,
bee
oppofeth it
to
faith, faying,
that
he
doubted
notof
the
pro
-
mife,but
was
flrengthened
in the faith.
So
the Apoflle
lains
chap.
i
.
5
.
fai
th,
If
any
man
lacke ufiredone,
let
him aske in
fait
lh
and roauernot;
where he oppofeth faith
to
waucring or
doub-
ting.
And our Sauiour
Chrifl
alfo
niaketh
this oppofition,
Matth.21.2i.
faying,
Ifyehaue faith
and
doubt not. So
that
though
faith and
doubting
are
not
oppofed
in refpe&
of
the
fubieS wherein
theyarefor
euen the
moll
deare
children
of
God
haue
their
faith often mixt
with doubting,
they
being
partly
flefh
and.partly
fpirit; yet
thefe
two
in
their owne na-
0
4
tures
zed, &
tonte.
gi:entlr
that
we
are
eleaed.
Rom
8.3o.
Ma,til.a5.
AÜ.i
3.48.
t-t:br4.r6.
and
io.zi.
§.sea.
3:
7 Ei1t
ou- affir.
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tYM!oCCL
%ot
F'e
,12;!,
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with
dotibtirtL.
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