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Comfortahle
Preferuitiues agaiffl
dcfperatíon.
.
4.1
and therefore
if
we
turne vnto
God
by vnfained repentance,
and
lay
hold vpon our
Sauiour
Chrif}
and
his
merits by
a
liuely
faith,
we
haue
our
quietus
efl,
and
general
acquittance,
which
God
hiinfelfe
hath
pronounced from
heauen in
the
pretence
of
many
witnef}es,faying,Thw
is
my
welteloued
Son,
in
whom
t
am
wellplea
Jed,
that
is,in whom
I
am deli
ghted,and
ref}
fully
fatisfied,and
well
contented, Matth.3.z 7.
Maul:.;
17.
.+.
T
CHAP.
XXXI1ÌI.
Of
the
third
eArgamentgrouuded
vpon God
tratth.
I-e
third
argurrient,
wliercby
all
thofe
who
re-
pent and beleeue
may
be
Allred
of
the pardon
and
reu
ifiion
of
their finnes;
is
grounded
vpon
Gods truth
;
for the
Lord
ismòfi
truc,yea truth
it
felfe,
and
all
his
prorstifes
in
Chriît
are
yea,
and
Amen. He
is
a
faithfull and true witneffe,and
whatfoeuer he
bath
fpoken
!Ball
be
accompliflied;
fo
that though
the hea-
uens
decay,'and
waxé
old like
a
gaament, though the
funne
lofe
his
light,
and the moone be turned
into bloud,
though
the
earth
tremble and quake,
and the
foundations
of
the
mountaines bee mooued and !hake,
yea,though
heauen
and
earth and
all
things therein
contained
perifh-
andpaffe
away,
jet
Thal
not
one
tot or
title
ofhis
word
fall
to
the ground vnaccorn-
plijhed.And
therefore whatfoeuer
the Lord
hath promifed
in
his
word,that
he will
moll vndoubtcdly
performe, for hee
is
lehoua,
whö hauing
his
effence
and
being
in
and
from
him-
felfe
alone;
giueth being vino
all
things
elfe,efpecially
to
his
word
and
promifes.Büt
hé
hath
promifed
to
all
b'eleeuers
and
repentant
(inners,
that
hee will in
Chrif}
Iefus
pardon
al
their"
fús,and
will receiue them
into his
grace arid fauour:
and
therefore
ifwee
beleeue and
ref}
vpon
our
Sauiour
Chrifl"a-
lane
for our faluation,
truely
repenting
vs
of
ail
our
finnes,
we
may
afftire
our
felues,that
thoughour
finnes
be neuer fo
litany
mid
grieuous, yet
the Lord will receiue
vs
to
merèïe
and pardon and
forgiue
them.'
But-thatthepôore
foule
-ouîtded
with
fin,and
groning
for
Wearints
4.sea.I.
Of
Gods
truth
in
his
promi-
[es.
z.Cor.
LAO,
Apoc.i.y.
Match.g.Y;"
.Set.