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Issas.
II
Of
the
maws
whereby
our
f
aith
mly
be
ftréngthened. 539
maybe dearelybelouedofGod,and
yet
fora
time apprehend
nothing but
his
wrath
and difpleafure;
that
hee may
haue
faith
and
affiance in
God,
yet at the
fame
time bee
deprived
ofall
fenfe
and feeling
of
his
loue and fauour. And
therefore
when
wee
are
exercifed
in
the combate
of
tentations,
it
not
Satan perfwade
vs
that
wee are
vtterly depriued
ofthe
loue
and.
favour
ofGod,
becaufe
through the
violence
of
his
ten-
tations and grieuoufüefíe
ofour
affli
&ions we
do
net
appre-
hend
it;nor that
we are
deflitute
offaith,and
all
other fpiritu-
all
graces,becaufe
wee
doe
not
fenfiblydi
fc
erne
them
in
our
feeding
;for this path
been
the
Elate
of
the
deare
children
of
God
from
the beginning
ofthe
world and
flail
be
to
the end
thereof.
eilMesisommei
CHAP.
XL
V.
Ofthe
t
meaner
whereby
our
faith
may
be
frengthenedand
in
creafed.
;Nd
famuch
concerning thofereafons whereby
we
may
prcuethat
we
haue
faith,
and alto
an-
fwere Satans
tentations, whereby
hee
labour
reth
to
perfwade
vs
that
we are
deíiitute there-
of.
The
fecond meanes
whereby
wee may arme
our
felucs
againfi 'Satan and
his
fuggeflions,
is,
that
we
moll
carnally
iiideuour
after
we haue found
that
wee
haue
foinefaith to
incrcafe
therein,
and
grow
vp
from
faith
to
faith vntill
wee
come
to
that
fulneffe
ofperfwafion which
will bring
fuck
peace
ofconfcience
as
Satan, and
all
his
ten
-
tations
íhall
not
be able
to
dif+urbe.
Otherwife
we fl:all
bee
continually
fubiec
to
feares and
doubtings,and exceedingly
fhaken with
Satans
tentations:
and in
truth
not
without
caufe,if
wee
+and
iüll
at
a
flay;
for howfoeuer Satan and
all
the
power ofhell cannot ptcuaile againfl the
leaf+
meafure
oftrue
faith
to
quench and vtterly
to
defiroy
it, yet
this will
bring
no found comfort to
thole'
which
refs
côtented
with
this little
quantitie,
and neuer
labour
after
increafesbccaufe
this
is
a
íhreud
prefuanption,that
their
faith
is
falfe
and coim-
terfaita
4.Sea.
I.
That
all
u
ht.?
are
ittduec#
vvitb
true
fairP,vfe
the
meanca
where-
by
it
may bee
increafed,