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That-Gods
f
rrit
afureth
vl
°f
our
e`eaion,,
213'
in
vs
fhadowed with
imperfe6tions and our faith mixt
with
doubting:
becaufe
wee
are
famed as
yet
but
by
hope,as
it
is
Rom.
2.24..
And
we
walke
by
faith
and
not
by
light,
as
it
is
2,Cor.
S..
7.
and
this our
faith
is
continuallie fhaken
with manifold
temptations, therefore
lefi
Ns'ee
fhould
doubt
of
Gods
loue
and
our
ele6tion,adoption
and faluation,
the
Lord bath
giuen
vs
his
fpirit
to kale,
and
further
to
confirme
this
affu-
rance in
our hearts;and
that
it might
be an
earnfi
and
a
Titre
pledge vnto
vs,
whereby
he
might
fccure
vs
concerning the
aouenant which
he
hath
made
with
vs.
The truth hereofap-
peareth
in
manic
places
of
the
Scripture.
2.Cor.r.22,
Who
=.Cor.r.i$.
hath
f
aled
vs
and
bath
giuen the
earneft
of
the
[pint
in
our
hearts.
So
Ephef.
t
.13.
In
whom alfo
ye have
trufled,after
that
Ephef.
r.
i
he
heard
the word
o
f
truth,eue» the
Gofpelofonrfaltsation,u
ber
-
in
alfo
after that
ye
beleeued
ye
were
pealed
with the
holy;
pirit
of
promif
.
t
4.
Which
is
the
earn
fl
of
our
inberitance,vntill
the
re-
demption
o
f
the
pefeffion
prchafed
vnto
thepraife
of
his
glorie.
And Ephef.4.30. the
Apof}le
cxhorteth
vs
not
to
grieue
the
Ephef.4.30.
holie
fpirit of
God,
by
n
hom
1be
are
Pealed
vnto
the day
o
f
eur re-
demption.
And 2.Cor.5.5.
he faith
that
God
bath
girsen
vnto
z.Cor.
;.S.
vs
the
carneji
of his
fpirit.
Which
words doe miniffer vnto euerie faithfull man no
finall
confolation,
if
they bee
rightlie waied;
for
fiat
wee
vfe
to
feale
thofe
things
which we would haue
mot+
certaine
and
out ofall controuerfie;
as
when
a man
hath made
a
pro
-
mile or
couenant
with another,
for his
better
fecuritie
hee
doth commit
it
to writing, and
left
yet there fhould
anie
fcruple
or doubt
ref+
in his
mind, he doth
confirme
it
by
adding
his
Peale,
to put the matter out
of
all quefiion
;
fo
the
Lord bath added
to
the
Witten
couenant
of
his
word,where-
by
bee
hath
affured
vs
of
our
eleuion,adoption
and
falua-
tion,
the
outward
Peale
of
the
Scraments; and
the
inward
feale
ofhis Spirit,whereby
hee
hath
ratified
it, not in
it
felfe,
but
in our hearts,
that
fo all caufe
of
doubting being taken
away,wee
might
certainelie bee allured
of
his promifes,
that
they
belong
vnto
vs
not after
a
generall
manner
as
the
Pa-
pith
teach,
but
particularlie euen
as
this-
aflurance
is
par
-
ticularlie
fealedby Gods
Spirit in
the heart
of
euery
true
be-
P
3
leeuer,