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for
'itch
acs
doe
not
feele
their
faith.
5
3
5
promifes,immutable goodneffe, and infallible
truth
:
and
if
euer
we haue
taxed
of
Gods
loue and
mercie,whatfoeuer
we
apprehend
in
our prefent
fcnfe
and
feeling,
faith
concludeth
that
we
ale
í1i11
in
his
loue
and fauour, for
he is
without change
or
fhadow
of
change,
as
the
ApofUle
fpeaketh,
lama
.17. and
lames
1.17.
whom
he fouetb, to
the
end
bee
loueth
than,
as
our Sauiour
hath
taught
vs,
Ioh.r
3.r.
Lhit
;,
To
Though then
our
fenfe
of
Gods
loue faile,yet
may
our
faith continue flrong,
as
appeareth plainly
in
the
example
of
Iob,who
though
he conceiued
ofGod
in
his
fenfe
and feeling
that
he
had hidden
his face
from
him,and tooke
him
for his
enemy,though
he
feemed
to
write
bitter
things
againf}
him,
and
made him
to
poffeffe
the
fins
ofhis
youth; yet by
a
finely
faith
het
ilrefled and
relied vpon
hitn,protefling,ÿ
though
he
fhould
flay
him
yet
he
would
true
in him:as
appearcth,Iob
13
.15
.
Iob
13.1
q.
Yea our
Sauiour
Chrif}
himfelfe
who
could
not
fin
through
infidelitie,in
refpe&
ofhis
prefent
fenfe
and feeling complai-
rteth
that God
had
forfaken
him.
Iftherefore
Satan
goe
about
to
perfwade
vs
that
wee
are,
§.
without
faith,becaufe we prcfently apprehëd
not
Gods loue,
That
vve
are
nor
feele
the
fweet
tare
ofhis
goodneffe; wee
are
to
anfwer,
rather
to
be-
that
we
are
not
to build our
affurance
vpon
our owne
fenfe
leeue
Gods
and
feeling,
but
vpon
Gods
vnchangeable
goodnes,and
gra-
óordithen
e
lo
our
rious promifes
madevnto
vs
in
Chrifl
Iefus
;and
ifat
any
time
f,
f
í
our
fenfe
and feeling;tel
vs
one
thing(namely,that
God
hath
rod
eelj>i
.
withdrawne
his loue from vs, and will neuer againe
looke
gratiouflie
vpon vs)and
the word
ofGod
affure vs
of
another
thing (to
wit, that God
will.
neuer
forfake vs,
but
continue
his
loue
towards
vs
vnto the end)
wee are
not to
giue
credit
vnto
our owbe
feeling,
but
vnto
Gods
word;
for
otherwife
what
doe we
elfe
but
preferrc our
oft
deceiuing fenfe,before
Gods
infallible
truth,
&
imagine
that
we can
better
difcerne
and
iudge
ofour
eflate
then
God
himfelfe
?
but
the
word
of
God
telleth
vs,
that
if
wee
turne vnto the
Lord
by vnfained
repentance, forrowing for our
finnes
páf},hating
our prefent
corruptions,
and defiring and
indeuouring
to mortifie
the
flefh and
the
lulls
thereof,
and
to
ferne
the Lord
in
holineffe
and
newneffe
oflife;
and
if
we
beleeue
in
Iefus
Chrifl
retling
:
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