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8
Ten
grounded
on
the
fzros:g
faith
o
f
others,stnfwered,
of2lofes
faith
vvhen
hee
dishonoured
Godbefore
the
pco-
plein not
beleeuing
his
word,
&by
(hewing
his irnpatiency?
nun's).
z
^.to,
Nunrb.2o.io.:I3. Where
was
the (lrength
and conflancie
of
z
c
Dauics faith,when
he
complaineth that
he was
forfaken,that
God
had failed
in his
promifes,that
he
had
forgotten
to bee
mercifull,and
had amt
vp
his
tender
mercies in
difplcafure?
`i'fa',.zZ.
t,
and
Pfa1.23.I
.and
77:8.9.
Or
of
fobs
faith
when
he
curled
ÿ
day
7rß.2.
ofhis birth,and
accounted
God
his
enemy,who
had fet
him
vp
as
a
marke againfl which
he
íhot
poifoned arrowes?Orof
leremy,wh%
he
likewife wished
that
he
had
neuet
binborne,
ercm.
zo,
and bewraieth
great
impatiency?Ier.2o.Or
of
Ic;i
u
when
he
rebelled againfí
Gods
commandement
and
fled from his
prefence;or when after
his
miraculous deliuerie,
he
murmu-
red
&
vttered impatient
ípeeches
euenagainf
God
himfelf,
for
the
loffe
ofa
poore gourd which kept
him from
the heat
ofthe
Sunne
;
and
when the
Lord
mercifully and
mildlyre-
proued
him,faying,Doeft thou
wel
to
be angry
fora
gourd,
he (iubbornely anfwered;
I
doe well
to
be angry
veto the
death,Ion.4.9. Or
of
the
Apoftles themfelues
whc:
they
fled
avvay
and
forfooke
their Lord
and
Mailer. Iefus
Chrift for
feare
of
worldly punifhment, and when after
his
death they
would
not
beleeue
the
women reporting
that
Lee
was
rifen
againe,vntill
their
owne
eyes
had
feene
him?
Laírly,though
it
be
euident that
diucrs
ofthe
Saints
mentioned
in
the
fcrip
tures had
a
farre
greater
rneafure
offaith;
and
brought
forth
much
more plentiful.
fruits
the
we can
difcerne in our felues,
yet this
is
no
good
reafon
to
proue
that
our
weaker &final
-.
ler faith
is
no
faith;
or
-vnef
eó
}call
for our faluation;: for
this
is an abfurd
confequencc,theMoone giueth
much
leffe
light
then
the Sunne;therfore.itgiueth no
light
at
all
;
one
hand.is
farre
greater
them
another, therefore
the
leffer
is-not
a
true
',hand
;
this man excelleth
another
in
the.vfe-
ofreafon,
and
therefore the
other.is vnreafonable, becaufe
they
diuers
de-
grees
in
the
qtiantityof
timings
do
not
take
away the truth
of
their
being
and
exiflen'ce,,folong
as
they be
ofthe
fame
na-
ture
and oual.itie.
Beddes,
as
the
holy
Cho('
bath
let
downe
.examples
ofmoí
}.fírong
faith in force
ofGods
fer-uan
s,fo
kath
he Made
mention
of
forne
who
haue had
but
weak
and
little
r