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Rom.s.
r.
Rom.8.3
o.
5
s
s
Tentationr
oppugning
our
iuffifacation,anfreered.
alwaies
accompanieth the
affurance
of
our
iuftification
;
for
being
iu,frjed
by
faith,
wee
hauepease
towards
God
through
our
Lord
Iefus
aril!,
as
the Apoffle fpeaketh,
Rom.'.
t.
Fir(
therefore
he
fuggelleth that our
iuf
}ification
is
an
aò
}ion
of
God,and
therefore vnknowne
to vs;
fo
that
we
cannot
pof-
fiblie
áttaine
veto
any
certaine knowledge
that
wee are
iu-
flified
ofGod,vnleffe
he affure
vs
hereofby
fame
fpeciall
and
extraordinarie reuelation.
For the anfwering whereof,
we
are
to
vnderfaand
that this
ofGod
in iuffifying
a
(inner,
is as
cleerely reuealed
ordi-
narily in
the
Scriptures,
as
any
other
thing
concerning our
faluation,and
that
euery true
beleeter
may
as
certainly con
-
clude
by vndoubted arguments grounded
on
Gods
infal-
lible
truth, that
,tie
is
iuftified
before
God,
as
by naturali rea-
fon he can
prooue
that
hee
liueth and breatheth. For
firf}
our
effc
&call
vocation and
iuftification are
infeparably
linked
together
by the
Apofl
le,Rom.R.3o. So
that
whofoeuer
cart
prooue that
hee
is effeó
}ually
called,
hee
may
alfo
moflcer-
tainly
inferre
that
hee
is
iuflified.
But
euery true
beleeuer
may
come
to
the certaine
knowledge that
he
is
effe6ually
called,
(as
before
I
haue
Ihewed
at
large)
and that
not
by
any
fpeciall
reuelation,
but
by the
will
of
God,
reuealed
in
his
word,by
the inward teftimonie
ofGods
Spirit, and
the
vndoubted
lignes
of
effeá
uall
calling, which hee obferueth
in
himfelfe; and therefore
without
any particular
reuelation
wee
may
attaine vino
the
affurance
alto
that
wee are
iufti-
fied,
that
is,
that
our
fnnes
are
pardoned for the
merits
and
full fatisfa6tion
of
Iefus
Chriff, and
wee
clothed
with his
righteoufnef
e.
Secondly, whofoeuer
can
come
to
the
affurance
that
hee
hath
a
true and
liuely
faith,
hemay allo
be
afl'ured
that
hee
is
iuílified
:
for
it
is
the
nature
and
an infeparably
propertie
of
true faith,
to
applie
vnto the beleeuer Chriff
Iefus
and
his
righteoufiteflc, whereby hee
is
ittffified
before
God
:
and
hence
it
is
that
the Scriptures plainly
affirme
that
wee are
iufdificd
by
faith,and not by
aly
thing
elfe
which
is
in
vs, as
before
I
haue
fufficiently
Ihewed. But
we may come to
the
.
certaine
affurance
that
wee haue
a
true
faith,
by the vndoub-
ted