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the
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righteoufneffe,
if
he
compared himfelfe
with
Gods
exa&
u-
f}ice,but
mutt
needs
condemne
himfelf
forawretched
Pinner;.
yet
hence
it
followed not
that
therefore
God
thus
affli
&cd
him,feeing
this
was
the
(late
not
of
him otiely
but
of
all
men
'
vhatfoeuer
:
and therefore this could not bee the only
caufe
ofhis
extraordinarie
affii6tions.
So
that
this
place makes
no-
thing
againft the
affurance
of
our faluation, which
is
groun-
ded vpon
Gods
free mercie
and Chrifts merits
;
but
againfl
that
prefumption which relieth
it
felfe
in
whole
or
in
part,
vpon
our owne
legali righteoufneffe.
The
like
place
to this
is
that
laying
of
Paul
which they
ob-
§.Sea.7.
.Cor.4.34.1
iucke
not
mine
owne
felfe,
for
I
know
nothin
.Cor.4.3.4.
by my
felfe,yet
am
1
not
thereby
iuFti
fled,
but
bee
that
iudgeth
me is
the
Lord.
For anfwering
\\hereof,vvee
arc
to
know,that
there
were diuers
in the Church
of
Corinth,
who
cenfitred
Fault
minif}erie
and
difgraced
his
gifts
;
againft which de-
trae}ions he
bendeth
his fpeech
and maketh
an
apologie for
himfelfe,faying,
that
hee
would
not
take vpon him
to iudge
himfelfe, concerning
the
excellencie
and
worth
of
his
mini
-
flerie and
gifts,
but
would
lcaue
the
iudgement
and
appro-
bation thereofvnto
God,
whole
ambaffadour hee
was;
and
though
hee
knew
nothing
which
might be obieéted againft
him
in
regard
of
his minif}erie,
yct hereby hee would
not
looke
to
bee
iuftified in
Gods
prefence.
So
that
if
this
bee
the
fenfe
of
the
words,
as
appeareth
by
the coherence and
the drift
of
the
place,
it
maketh
nothing
for
Popifh doub-
ting.
But
let
it
be
granted that
Paul
fpeakes
not
of
his
mini-
f
}erie,but
ofhis
righteoufüeffe
and
obedience to the
law,yet
this maketh
nothing
againft the certaintie
of
our
cledtion;
for the Apo(
}le
fpeaking
ofhis
ovine
righteoufnes and inno-
cencie,doth
difclaime
it
from
being
any caufe
ofhis
iuf
}ifica-
tion
:
neither
doth
he
fay
that
in
regard
therof
he
doubteth,
as
the
Papists
would expound him,
but
he
aft-it-meth
direly
that
he
is
not thereby
iuf}ified,and
rendreth this
as a
reafon,
that
it
is
God
who iudgeth him
:
&thcrfore though
he
were
vnblameable before men,
yea
though
hee
knew
nothing
by
himfelfe,
yet
hee could
not hereby be iuflifiedbeforc the
it'll
iudgement
feateof
God, who
requires
fuch
perfection awl
S
exac`