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:tans
temptations
improue
not our
redemption.
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like danger,
becaufe
the citizens
will
carefully fortifie
their
walles and.increafe
their bulwarkcs;and
as
he
who
hath
been
once
robbed
bytheeues,will
euer
after ride
better
prouided
to
make refiflance,
that
hee
doe
not
againe
fall
into
their
hands
;
fo
thole who
are
befieged
and affaulted
by their fpi-
rituali
enemies, will euer after more carefully arme
them-
felues
againa
them
with
the
graces
of
Gods fpirit,that they
may
not
bee ouercome
nor
foiled
by
them.
Wee know
that
whilefl men.quietly enioy
their
poffef
ions and
inheritance
they
ref}
fecure,keeping their
writings
in a
box
without
euer
looking
on
them from
yeere
to
yeere,
but
when their
title
and
right
is
called
into queflion,
and
force man
labours
to
thrufl them out
of
their
poffeflion,
then
they
perufe
their
writings
and deeds
with
all
diligence
;
and
not
fatisfied
with
their
ovine
iudgement they refort to
skilfull
Lawyers, cra-
uing
their
counfaile
how they
may maintaine
their
right,
and
anfwere
the
plea
which their
aduerf<arie
makes
again1
them;wherby
oftentimes
it
commeth
to
paffe
that
they make
their
title
not
onely much
tnore'firong
in
it
felfe,
but
alfo
more
cleere and
euident vnto
all
others,
fo
that
afterwards
none
dare once
aduenture to trouble them againe, or
call
their
right
into
queflion
:
fo
whilefl wee neuer
doubt
of
our
heauenll
inheritance
we
ref+
fecure,and
let the
book
of
God
which
is
our belt
deede and euidence,lie vnder our
cupbords
till
itmould
for
want
ofvfe;
but
when Satan
by
his
temptati-
oi's
doh
cal
our title into queflion, and
pleades
that
we
haue
no
right tö Gods kingdome,then
doe we
mof+
carefully
and
diligently
perufe
the
booke
ofGod,
then doe
wee
goe
vnto
Gods
Miniflers,
defiring their
counfaile
how
we may anfwer
Satans`plea
and
cleere
our
title,then
doe
wee
moll
carefullie
vfe
all
good
meanes
to
encreafe
our
knowledge, that there-
by
wee may
thronghlie
in
forme our
felues
of
our
right,
and
confirme
our
affurance
againf+ all
cauils and obieélions..
And
hereby
it
comtneth
to
paffe,
that
thofc who
before
had
very
weake
titles
to their
heauenly
inheritance,
whilcf+
they
remained
retchleffe
and
fecure,andbut
flender affurance
euer
to
enioy
it;
now, by their
care,
pines
and
diligence,
haue
fo confirmed
it
vnto
themfelues, and fo.cleered
it
to
all
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