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now
rre
wqy
be
aff
ïsred
of
our
perfeueranee.
are
kept
the
power
of
God
through
faith veto
faluatiott,
as
the
Pct.
r:
Apofilefpea.keth,
i
Pet.1.4.
Though
we fhould
emery
day
lofe
euerlafting
life
and
happineffe
through..
negligence,
or
fell
it
away for
the
vanities
of
the world and
pleafures
offinne
if
it
were
in
our
owniehands,yetall
thas
tit.
fuflì
cient
to
difinherit
vs
of
our
heauenly patrimonie,for
it
is not
atour
own difpofition,but
our
life
is
hid
tbith
rhrifi
to
God,
as
CQT3,3
itjs
Co1.3.3.
And
therefore though
in
our
felues we are
as
weake
asreedes,
and
as
vnconfiant.
and
.changeable
as
the
wind-
andweather,
yet
are
we tenne
thQufand times. more
litre
to
perfeuere
in
that
grace
whiscb`we
haue receiued
vnto
euerlafling life,
than
e4dam
in
the
flare
ofinnocencie;
for
he
floode by
his
owne
firength,which
though
it
were
great,
yet it
was finite,.
but
we
by
the
almightie power
ofGod;'he
by the
vertue
of
his
owne
free
will, which
was
mutable and
fubie
t
to
alteration,
but
we
by the
vwilloXod,
which
bc..
ir.g;immutab.e admitteth.
ofno
change::,
Bailer
vs
come, more
fpeciallie
to
ípealçg'.of
this
mine
The
!fate
ofthe
controuerf
ie
betweene the
true
hriftian
and the eremies
of
w1:9ueffie.
his
faluation,.thefiatewhereof
f}a
deth thus
;
whether bee
that
is
eled ed
in
Gods, eternal!
couilfalle,
wud is
effeeluallie
called,
that
is,
feuered
from
the
wovld,giuen
-to
Chrií
;.'and
ingrafted
into
Chrifiby the
fppirit
ófGod
and_a
liuely
faith,
iufiified,fandificd,and
indue_d
with
the
fandiifying
gifts and
graces
ofGods
fpirit, may
after
all
this
fall
away,
lofe
the
fpirit
of
God
and
the
graces
thereof,
and become
as
_pro-
phane
and
wicked
euer he
was
before
his
conuerfion, lofe
al
fo
his
iufiif cation,be;cut off
from
the,bodie
of
Chrifi,
and
finally
become
a
reprobate. This
the
enemies
fir
falt:atl
-
o
:
afiv
tne,
but
we denie
as
being
a
thing
impcfiible,
not itt
regard
of
our owne ftrength;conflancie,
or
great
meafttre
of
grace which
wee haue
receiued,
but
in
rcfpei
ofGods will
and
power
who
vphpld.cth
ys,Chrifis
intcrcc.ffign
who
pray
-
eth
fçr vs,and
Gods
holy
fpirit alwaies
dwelling
in
vs,wher-
i
y
-we
are
fo
firengthened
and confirmed, that.all,the power
of
hell cannotpreuaile
againß:
vs.
This
our
aflfertion
firfi
.
confirme
by
vnfallible
rea-
:§
.4.
fonsfand after
.ardsanfwere
the,contrarieobieions
which
arre_: