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Arguments
to
prose
the cerhilut:e
ofour
perfeuerance.
677
end he
loued
them.
And
therefore
all
the faithfull may
afire
themfelues
that
they
fhal
be faued,and
being
once allured
of
Gods
loue, they
may
with
the Apo(lle
be
vndoubtedlie
per
-
fwaded,that nothing
in
the
world
(hall
bee
able
to
feparate
them
from
the loue
ofGod
which
is
in
Chrifl
Iefits
our Lord.
But
againfl this
it
may be
obieeled,that
the
finnes
of
the
faithfull doe prouoke the,
Lord vnto anger,and
mooue
him
§.Se%7,
to
call
themoffin
his iufl difpleafure, and
to
withdraw
from
An
oblation
them
his Wonted
loue and fauour
:
and therefore feeing
fin
againfl the
for
-
feparateth them from
Gods
loue, it
may
alfo
plunge them
v
e
°nan'
into
condemnation.
To
which
I anfwere,
that
indeede
the
Î
finnes
of
the
faithfull doe in
themfelues deferue
theeuerla-
fling wrath
ofGod
and eternall
death,
if
they
were
not ta-
ken
away
by
Chri(l,
who bath by
his precious
bloodfhed
fatisfied his
fathers
iu(lice; and
that
euen
now they
fo
offend
by
their
finnes
their
gracious father,
that
they
had neede
to
renew.their
faith and
repentance, before they
can haue any
fenfible aflurance
that
they
are
reconciled vnto him,
and re-
ceiued
into
his
loue
and
fauour.
It
is
molt true
that God
is
difpleafed
with
the
flumes
ofhis
children, according
to
that
Efa.64.5.
Behold thou
artangrre,
for
wee
haue
finned
But this
anger
doth
not
exclude
them
out
ofhis
loue,
feeing
it
is
not
Efa.64.5.'
the
anger
oían
enemie
but
of
a
gracious father,
who
is
not
H°VGodis
angrie with their
perlons
to
deflroy
thetn,but
with their
fins
3á
tvvirh
his
to council
and
fauethem.
As therefore
children,with their
children.
faults
prouoke their
parents
to anger, and mooue them
to
turne
their
fatherly
finiles
into
bitter
frownes,and the fruites
of
their loue
into the
effe &s
of
hatred in
outward
Phew, as
namely
feuere
countenances,fharpe reproofes, and
rigorous
chaflifements; and
in
refpea of
thefe
outward
fignes
and
ef-
feáts
oftheir
anger they
are vfitallie
Paid
to
be
out
of
fauour
and
in
their
fathers difpleafure, howfoeuer in
truth
at
the
fame time
they intirely
loue
them,
and
vie all
this holefotne
feueritie
not
becaufe
they hate,
but
becaufe
they would
re-
forme them:
So
Gods
children when by
their
finnes
they
do
offend him and
prouoke
his
anger againll
them,
ire
laid
to
be
out
of
his
fauour,
not that
God
doth
euer
change
his fa-
therly
affeó
ion,or
purpofeth
vtterlie
to
reie&
them,hutbe-
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