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4.See7.B.
Our
perfeue-
rance
prooued
by
Gods
inamM-
tabilitie
in bis
gifts.
Rom
1
1.29.
Pfaff.
S
1.9.
t
o
11.11.15.
67
S
Arguments
to
prone the certaintie
of
our
perfeuerance.
caufe
he
changeth
the
effe
&s
of
his loue
into the
effeós
of
hatred
in
outward
fhew,as when
inwardlyhee
fuffreth
them
to
be
vexed
with the terrors
of
confcience,
and
with
the ap-
prehenfion
of
his
anger
and difpleafure, and outwardlie
whippeth
and
tcourgeth them with
temporarie
afilio`
lions;
all
which he
doth not
for any
hatred to their
perfons,
for he
neuer
hateth
thofe whom hee
bath
once
loued
in
Chrift,
but
for the hatred
oftheir
finnes,
and loue
ofthe
firmer,
whom
by
this meanes
hee
bringeth
by
the
rough
and'vnpleafant
way
ofrepentance, vnto
the
eternall
pleafures
of
his
king
-
dome.
And
thus
it
appeareth
that Gods
loue
and anger
may
!land
together,
and
that notwithfianding
his
momentane
difpleafure,
hi
s
loue
may
be eternall.
Now
fecondly
wee
are
to
know,
that
as
God
is
immutable
in
his
loue,fo
alfo in
his
gifts,asfaith,repentance,
hope
affiance,
charitie,
&c. accor-
ding
to
that
Rom, i
1.29.
The
gifts
and
calling
ofgod
are
t'ith
out
repentance.
But
yet this
is
to
bee vnderfiood
with
diuers
cautions
;
for
firfi
it
is
not to
be vnderflood
ofall
the gifts
of
God,
not
of
temporarie
gifts, nor
of
the
gifts
of
the
fpirit
which
are
common
to the wickedwith
the
godly;
for thefe
being not
effentiall
to
a
Chriftian
nor
necefharie
to
faiva-
tion,
the Lord giueth
or
taketh
away,
as
in his
infinite wife-
dome
he
thinkethbefi;
neither yet
are
we
to
vtiderfiand
it
of
all
gifts
of
the fpirit which
are
proper
to
the
elc
&,
for
force
alfo
ofthefe being
not
of
the
eflence
offairh,but onely
effe6ls
and
fruites
thereof,he
taketh
away from
his
children
for
a
time;
asnamely,the
puritie
of
theirconfcience,and the
peace
which doth
accompanie
it,
the
fenfe
and feeling
of
.
Gods
loue and fauour,
cheerefulnes
offpirit,ioy
in
the holy
Ghofi,patience,the gift
ofprayer and
fuch
like;
becatife
his
loue
and the faluation
ofthe
faithfull may !land with the
want ofthefe
gifts
for
a
time.
Neither
are wee
to
vnderfiand
this
of
the
a6}ions
and
fenfible
fruites
of
Gods
graces,
for
thefe allo haue their intermiilions, the
graces themfclues
notwithfianding
remaining
:
for
as
the
Sunne
doth
alwaies
fhine,and yet
fometitnes
the
beames
thereof
are
not
difcer-
ned,being
hindred
from fpreading themfelues
by
the
inter-
pofition
i