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i
t
and
flraight
lea, in
danger to runne
on
the rockes,or
to linke
in the
find's,
doth
cart
out
ancor
on
both
fides,or
more
care
-
fullie
looke vnto the
Herne
to
keepe
it
in an
euen
courfe
:
fo
we failing in
the
tempefluous
fea
ofthis
miferable world,'are
in danger on
the
one fide
to
dafh vpon
the
rockes
ofpre-
fitmptuous
fecuritie, and on the
other
fide
to
finke in
the
lands
and to plunge into the
gulfe
of
defperation
:
and
there-
fore
the Lord
doth
flay
vs
from
both,
as
it
were
with two
firong
cables
;
the
firfl
is
legall comminutions and
flrióó
ad-
monitions,to
keepe
vs
from carnali fecuritie and
hypocriti-
call
prefumption; the
other
is
fweere
promifes,
whereby
hee
keepeth
vs
from falling
into doubting
and defperation
;
nei-
ther doth
one
of
thefe
hinder
another, but
both
thy
vs
from
falling
into
thefe extremes.
So
that
thefe
admonitions
are
not
giuen
to
make
vs
doubt-
full
ep`.
ofour
election,but
partly
to
take away
the prefumption
rhetrue
ea-
and
fecuritie
of
hypocrites and carnal
worldlings,and partly
fling
oftbefe-
to
bridle and
reflraine the
flefh
from
running headlong
into
:ierallplacer
fin,and from
growing
infolent
ouer
the fpirit euen
in
Gods
obicaed.
children,whereby indeed their
affuranee
offaluation would
be abated
andlanguifh. The truth whereofappearcth
if
we
examine
the
feuerall
places. For firíl,
whereas-the
Apof}le,
i
.Cor.
i
o.
i
2.faith,Let
him
that
thinketh
be
l
andeth,take
heede
left
he
fall;:he
doth not
moue thofe that
are
faithfull,to
doubt
of
their
perfeuerance,
but
thofe
that want
truc
faith,not to
decciue themfelues
with
vaine prefumption,and
with
an
opi,
nion
of
faith in
Bead
of
true faith
in
deede
:
and there hee
faith
not
fimply,let him
that
flandeth,
but
let him
that
thin
-
keth
he
flandeth,
that
is, he
that
doth not
fland
in
deede
but
in
his
owne fond
opinion.
Neither
can
-it
neceffarily
bee pro
-
ued,that
this falling
is
to
be vnderflood offinall falling away
from
God;
but
rather
as
the
coherence
ofthe
text flieweth,
of
falling
into
thofe
finnes
which the
Ifraelites fell
into
:
and
though
it were,
yet
is
it
but
an
admonition to
take away
car
-
nall
fecurity,not giuen
to
make
vs
doubt
of
our
flanding,but
to
prcferue
vs
from falling.
Secondly,whereas the
wife
man faith,
Pro.
28..r
Meld
Prou.:
&.a,.
if
the
man
that
feareth
akaiei
:
be
cloth
not
vnderfland
there-
by