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rance
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anfivered.
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your
felues
with
vaine confidence
and
fondprefumption, in
flead ofaliucly
faith.
Fourthly,\whereas
the Apoflle,Phil.2.
r
2,doth
exhort
vs
to
g,Sea.
worke out
our
falmationWith feare and
trembling;
he cloth
not
Phil.z.JL.
hereby take away from
vs
affurance
of
our ele6lion
and fal-
tiation,but
carnali fecuritie
and
felfe
confidence
;
that
fo de
fpairingofourowne
ílrength,
as-
being
vnable
ofour
felues
to thinke
a
good
thought,or
to
will
that
which
is
good,wee
may in
all
hurnilitie
rea
and
relie ourfelues
wholly upon
the
Lord. And that this
is
his
meaning,
appeareth
by the
reafon
which
he
adioyneth
in
the
verfe
following
:
for faith hee,
it
is God
which
:vorkketh
in
you
both
the
will
and
the. deede.
As
though
hee
fh-ould
fay,there
is
no
reafon
why you fhould be
fcçure,
as
though
you
were able
to
Band
by your owne
ílrength;
there
is
no
caufe
why
you
fhould be lifted
vp
with
fond prefumption,or
be carried away
with
felfe
confidence,
for
ofyour
felues,
you
are
not
able.-fo
much
as
to
will
that
which
is
good,
orto
performe
it though
-you
fhould
will
it,
vnleffe
it
pleafe
the Lord
`of
his
owne
good
pleafure
and
free
will to worke
both
in
you,and therfore
refpehng
your own
infirmities and
imperfee'ions, you fhould
bee
fo
farre
from
carnal!
fecuritie
or
felfe
confidence,
that
contrariwife you
fhould continuallie feare,
leafi
through
your corruptiou you
fhould
be ouertaken
offin,
and
fo
difpleafe
the
Lord which
is
your foueraigne King and gratious Father.
So
that
the
A-
poftle
doth
not
here
exhort
vs
to
doubt
of
our ele6lion
and
faluation,
but to
a
godly
feare
that
we
doe
not
fall
into
finne:
he would
not
haue
vs
to doubt
of
Gods
grace,and
free
pro
-
mifes,but
of
our owne
arength,by
which
we
are
altogether
vnable
to
{land
if
hee
leaue
vs
to our
(clues
:
hee
would
not
haue
vs
feare leR
we
fhould be
reieded
and
damned,after
we
are
truelie
conuerted
vnto
God, but
leafl wee
fall
into
finne,
and
ncgleel
that
dutie
which
wee
owe to our heauenlie fa-
ther.
Thefe
two
therefore may well
Hand
together:for the more
-Fcare
and
di
we diftrufl
our
owne weakeneffe,
the more
firmelie wee
reH
Qruft
in
our
vpon the power
and
affiHance
ofGod,
and
-the
more
we
relie
'ace"
upon
him,
the
more
fure
wee.
are
of.
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end
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