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7134t
a
Peal!
,,
dekeake
faith
may
bed trite
faith.
.S
;T
true faith, and
that
all
the children
ofGod
haue
it
not in
the
That
art
there
degrees
e
like
ineafure
:for
fome
haue
attained to
a
flrong
and
great
.arth
meafure
offaith,-as thofe
who
are
indued with
much
know-
Go
ds
6i/drat.
ledge,
and firtncly affent
veto that
which they
know,and
are
troll
certainelie perfwadcd
of
their
faluation in
Chrifl, and
that
al
the gratious promifes
of
the
Gofpeil doe
belong vnto
them,fo
as
nothing
in
the
world
fhalbe
able
to feparate
them
from the loue
ofGod
which
is
in
Chrifi
Iefus
our
Lord
;
o-
thers
are
weake and indued
with
a fmall
meafure
offaith,
as
thofe
who
haue
little knowledge,weake
affent and
perfwai-
on;being
yet
but
babes
in Chrifi,and growing
vp
from faith
to
faith,as the
Apofile
fpeaketh,Rom.r.si
7
:ti11
at
length
they
Rocn.i.17.
attaine to
that
fulnefle
of
perfwafion,'of'which mention
is
tnade,Heb.:to.2z.
Nowweare
to
hold
firfl,
that
this
fmall ieb,ro.zz,
and weakc
meafure
offaith
is
,notwithflanding
a
true
faith,
and therefore
fufftcient
for the
faluation
of
thofe
who
are
in-
dued
therewith, neither
are
the
promifes
ofthe
Gofpel made
to
thofe only who
haue
a
firong
faith,'but
to
thofe
who haue
a true faith.;
loh.
r .12.
As
many
as
-receiued him, hee game
to John
7.
rz.
them
prerogative
to
he the
fens
of
qod,
euen
-te
them
that
6eleeue
in
his name.
And
Iob.3.
i
8.
He that
beleeuethJhal1befamed
:in
Iohn
3.18.
which
and
-fuck
like
places
thereis
no
meafure
offaith pro
-
pounded,
but-the promife
are
made indefinitely
to
all
that
beleeue,
how
finali
and weake
foeuer
their
faith be in
refppec
ofthe
quantitie and apprehenfion,
fo
that in
.regard
of
the
qualitie
it
be true
and
liuely.
That
a weake
and
finall
nieafure'offaith
is
true and liuelie
.Seff.2.
faith,it
-is
manifefl'bothby
reafon
and
alfo
plaine teflimonies
That a
vveake.
ofthe
Scripture:for
the
firfi,diuerfitie
of
degrees
in
quantity
and
b[mall
ffain)
ola
thing
loth
not
take away
&
annihilate the eciflence and
and
liaa
-true'beingthereof;for example,a
final
drop
ofwater,is
as
wel
Jaü
j,,
and
truelie water
as
the whole
Ocean
-;
a
little
fparke
is
true
fire,both
in
refpea
offubflance-and
quality,as wel
as
a
migh-
ty
flame;a
little
man
is-as
truly
a
man
as a
great Giant:and
fo
.
as
little
faith
is as
well
a
true faith as
a
full
perfwafion;
neither
-loth
the
final
quantitie take
away the
being,
nature,
and
truth
thereof. Secondly, this alto tnanifefllie appeareth
by
the
Scriptures, whereas many
are laid
to
haue
faith and
to
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