387 / 772
rentatlons
taken
from
the
mil
ofÁÍinifters,anf,ered.
3 g
as
vnto men, and thereföre thofe who
haue
it
may
neuerthe-
leffe
be
as
,vorldly,
carnali, and
prophane
as
euer
they
were;
for
before
we
attaine vnto
a
true
id:ìfying
faith,
and be
fan
-
¿
ified
by
Gods
fpirit, our
knowledge
and
learning
will
not
free
vs
from our
corruption
of
nature, wherein
we
arc
con-:
ceiued
borne
and
bred
;and
therefore
though
we
fee
the
truth,yea know
and acknowledge it to be the
word
ofGod,
which
flail
one day
either
iuftiñe
or
condemue
vs,
yet
ifthe
Lord
doe
not
ioyne
with
this
knowledge
the
inward
opera_
tion
of
his
1j
irit, making
it
effee`luail
for
our fanetification,
and
for
the
purging ofvs
from our
corruptions,we
arc
as
roa-
die to fall
into
all
finne,
being
inticed
and carried away
with
the
riches,honours
and
pleafure3
ofthe
world,
as
if
wee
were
fiiil
mof}
fottifiily
ignorant.
A
notable
example
hereof
wee
haue
in
Salomon,
who
though
hoe
had receiued
fuch
a
mea-
fure
ofwifdotne
and diuine
knowledge,
as
neuer
rneere
man
attained
vnto the like,
yea
though
he
were a'penman
of
an
excellent
portion
of
holie
Scriptures,
yet the Lord leauing
him to the corruption
of
his
own
hart,he
fell
moil grieuoufly
into
all
abominable
w'ickednes:and
yet
who
will dare to
fay,
that
Salomon
did
not write
as
he
thought,and
not rather that
he
was
carried away
through the
violence
ofhis
corruptions,
to commit that
fin=
which
his confcience
condemned,
and
to
neglcc`l
obedience
to Gods vndoubted trueth?
So
Dauid
who
was
indued with notable
knowledge,
and no
leffe
grace,
fell
notwithflanding
moll
fearefully
into
adulterie
and
murrher;
but.fhall
we
therefore thinke that
he was
not
perfwaded
that
thefe were
horrible
firmes,
or
that when
hee
commended mereie,innocencie and chaffitie,he
fpakc
not
as
hee
thought?
And Peter likewife denied and
fort
yore his
Mailer, whom before
he
had
acknowledged to
be the forme
ofGod
;
but
(hall we hence conclude
that
Peter
diffembled
when
hee
made
that
notable confeflion,
becaufe
when
lice came
to
the triall hee
vtterlie
difciaimed
it
?
Nay
ra-
ther
wee may
certainly bee
perfvaded,that D
ttid
was
car-
ried
away
with
his
lull:
and concupifcence,
and Peter ouer-
come
with
feare
and
frailtie,and
both
drawne,through
their
corruption,to
commit thofe
fins
which their
côfciences con
-
A
a
4
demned.
lion;
our
nntu
sali corruftiós.
That
neglec`f
of
dulie
doth not
alwaies argue
ìncredulitic.