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f
the
meanes
u
hereby
roe
maybe
4fj"ured
ofour
ele&boss:
flinating,and decreeing
that
we ¡hall be faued,
yet
we may
plainelie
fee
apparant
feales
and
imprefflons
hereof
in our
felues,liuel"ie
refembling
that
which
is
fecret
in
Gods hidden
counfell
;
and
as
we
not feting
the
Peale
which maketh the
itnprefiîon,doe
eafily
difcerne
the forme,fafhion,
&
quantity
thereof
by the
print which
it
bath
made
fo
wee
not feting
Gods
fecret decree
of
predeflination,
may
notwithflanding
attaine to
the euident knowledge thereof,by
that
impref1ìon
which it maketh
in
vs.
This
alto may further
be ilIuflratedby
a
familiar fimilitudc;
namely,as the
funne
íhining
vpon
vs
with
his
bright
beames,
doth imprint
as
it,
were
in
our
eies
the image
of
his
light,
whereby
wee
fee
thefunneand
the
light thereof
(the
beames
of
the..fanne
which
are
call vpon
vs,
being
refleóled
backe a-
gaine-to the
funne
it
felfe;)
fo
the foreknowledge
of
God
whereby
he
bath
decreed
that
we ¡ball
befaued beforeall
e-
ternitie,
is
fecret
in
it
felfe,fo
y
we
cannot fee,nor vnderfland
it direalie,
but
yet
whilefl
God
doth
acknowledge
vs
for his
ele6l, hee
doth
expreffe
the image and
forme_ofthis his
fore-
knowledge
in
thofè
whom
he
hath
ele&ed, whereby we doe
allo
acknowledge him our
gracious
God
who bath
ele6
ed
vs;and
fo
it
cotnmeth
to
paflè
that
by
the
true
knowledge
of
Gód,w.hich
is
communicated
vnto
vs,whereby
we-
acknow-
lcdge.him
for our
God
and
father;
wee alto
know
his
fore-
k-
nowledge,wherebÿ
he
:knoweth and
acknowledgeth
vs
for
his
Tonnes
and children.
For
firfl
God
knoweth
vs,
and
then
by the light.ofthis.knowledge
communicated
veto
vs,he
in-
lightneth
our
hearts
with
the true
knowledge
of
himfelfe,as
the
-fitn
firfl
inlightneth
our eies,and by this
lightwe
fee
the
funne
it
felfe.And this-our Sauiour
Chrifl
intimateth,Ioh.io.
i4..where
firfl
he.faith he
hno
veth
hid
fheepe,&
then he
addeth
that
he
is aíro
k
zorrne
of them.
As
though
he
fhuld fay,whilefl
Iknow
and
acknowledge them
for my fleep,hereb-y
I
bring
to
paffe
that
they
in like manor by the participati
6
ofthis
my
light
and
knowledge,doe acknowledge
me
for
their
true pa-
flor.Iftherfore
we
know
and
acknowledge
Gód,for
our gra
tious
God
&
louing
father
in
Chrifl,it
is a
moil
certain
figne;
that
he alto
by
his
foreknowledge, doth know
and acknow-
ledge
ys
for his people and children,fl
t
if
we remaine
in
out
lgnorancea