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That
wemay
be
ae
cured
of
our
elation.
2
o
i
by God,as the
chiefe
and maine dutie required in the
Gof_
pell
:
and therefore laying
afide all
reafoning and difputing,
let
vs
refolue
to
beleeue in obedience
to
Gods
commande-
Aft.i
ment;
and then
though
wee
are
neuer
fo
full
of
corruptions,
5.-9
yet
will this faith
purifie
vs ;
though
wee are
mot+
backward
,6,
in performing
any
good
worke, yet will
it
be
fruitful!
in
vs,
Gallac.
S
and
will
worke by
loue
;
though
wee
be molt
vnworthie,
it
will make
vs
more
worthie,
by applying vnto
vs
the
righte-
oufnes
of
Chrift
and the merits
of
his
death
and
bloodfhed,
which
will
not
onely
free
vs
from the
guilt
and punifhment
of
fin,
but
will
alfo
purge
vs
from the
vices
and corruptions
themfelues.
Thirdly,the
certaintie
of
our ele6lion may
be prooued,
by
4.sea.q:v=
an
argument drawne
from the nature
of
faith: which
is
not
a
rbirdly,
faith
doubtful! opinion,
but
a
certaine perfwafion;
not
a
generall
is
a
certaine
notion,but
a
particular
affurance,
whereby
we
do
applie
and
and particular
cr
appropriate
veto
our felues thofe
things which
wee doe
be-
er
a fl
jull
leeue.Whofoeuer therfore hath true faith,he
doth
certainly
opinion
or
ge-
beleeue and
is
particularly allured
of
his
ele6tion,itifiificati6
nerall
notion.
and faluation.
That
faith
is
a
certaine perfwafion,
it
may ap-
peare
firft
by
thofe properties
& names
which
are
giuen vnto
it
in
the
Word.
Heb.i
1.1.
faith
is Paid
to be
that
is, a Hh,$
I.I.
fubfiftence or prefent
being ofthings
hoped
for;fo
that
hope
vvaiteth
for
them
in
time
to
come,
but
faith enioyeth them
as
being prefent,
namely,in
refpe61
of
the
certaine
atl-urance
and particular application
of
the
promifes
vnto
our
felues
:
and therefore the
Apoftle
faith,
that
hereby
we
may know
(not
1-1(b.1II.
that
wee fhall
haue,but) that
we
haue
eternallli
fe,
t.Ioh.S.13.
not
in
poffeflîon,but in
affurancc
offaith.It
is
called
4£yx- in t,Ioln
.4
,
.
the
fame
place,
which word
is
quite contrarie to
doubting,
as
fignifying
a
manifeft
demont
}ration
which
loth
not only
Phew
a
thing probably,
but
alfo
doth
conuince
with firong
arguments, and make
that truth
cleere
and
manifeft;
which
was otherwife obfcure and fecret, and
therefore
in
the text
it
is called
a
demonftration
of
things not
feene. So
there
is
a-
fcribed vnto
it
fulnelfe
ofperfwafion:Heb.1
0.22.Let
vs
drawl-16.10.2u
neere with
a
true
heart,c
7x+ts9oe,e 77;S
«c,
in
full
4
irance
o
f
faith:
and
alto boldneffe
with
confident
truft,Eph.3.12. by
whom:
Ephe£3.IS.
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