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Arguments
to
proue the
certàìntie
of
our
perfeuerance.
679
pofition
of
the
cloudes
or
of
the
earth,
and
the
fire
doth con-
tinue
light
and
hot
in
it
felfe,
and
yet being
couered
with
afhes
doth
giue neither
light
nor heate to
the
flanders
by;fo
thefe graces
of
Gods
fpitit,
faith, hope,
affiance,
loue
and
fuch
like,
may
in
refpe&
of
their
fubflance
habituallie
re-
maine in
vs,
and yet for
a
time
not
fend
foorth
the
light
and
heate
ofioy,comfort,peace
and
the
ref}
;
and though
they
re-
taine
their
nature
f}ill,
yet they
may
be hindred
from exerci-
fing
their
a6tions and
functions;
as
namelie, when
as
the
confcience
is
wounded with
fome wilfull finne
committed
again(}
the knowledge,or
in the fpirituall
confli6
of
tenta-
tions,as before I
haue
(hewed at large.
Laf}ly,
this
is
not
to
bee vnderflood
of
their
meafure and
degree, for
thefe
graces.
haue
their
full
and waine,
their
ebbe
and
tide,their
perfe&
firength
and their faint
languifhing
;
but
of
their
fubf}ance
and true
being,
in
which
refpe&
they neuer vttérly
faile
but
continue
without
intermiffion
vnto the end,
for
as
the
gift
offaith,
fo all
other
the like graces
are
the worke
ofGod,
as
our Sauiour
teaclheth
vs,
Iohn 6.29.
and we
may
affure
our
Iehn
6,29.
felues
of
this,
That
he
that
bath
begunne
thisgood
werkein
vf,
will
air
f
nsJh
and
per
re51
it
vntill
the
day
ofIefus
Chrifi,
as
the
Phil.t.6.
Apode
fpeaketh,Phil.x.6.
CHAP.
XIIII.
O
f
the
fourth
and
fifth
reafon
to
proue the
certaintk
of
our perfeuerance,grounded
upon
Gods
power
and
truth.
He fourth reafon may
bee taken
fromGods-om- 4,Secri.I.
nipotencie and
almightie power
:
for
ifGod
in
The
fourth
refpe&
of
his
infinite
loue,
bee
willing that
wee
reaJongroun-
1?
fhall be
faued,
and perfeuere in
the
meanes
of
ded
upon Gods
our
faluation
;
and be
immutable alto
and vnchañgeable
in
sas
"potencye
bis
lue
and will;and likewife in
refpeóó
of
his
power infinit
and almightie,
able
to
elle&
whatfoeuer
hee
willeth
:
then
firrelie
being
allured
that
we
are
in the
Date
ofgrace,
and
in
Gods
loue and
fauour,there
is
no
doubt but
we (hall bee
fa-
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