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Arguments
to
proue the
certaintie
óf
oar
per,
etterdnii
Egg
which neither the raine,
nor
floods,nor winds
could
ouer-
throw,
Matth.7.24.2
5.
neither
fklll
the gates
of
lbe
ll oteercc:n
e
matt
}ß.7.t
him,
chap.'
6,verf.t8.
He
is
like
the good ground
is
which
z5,
and
the
(cede
falling
is
not
flollen
away,nor choked
vp,
nor \'i-
thereth
for
want
of
roote,but
he
receiueth the feed
and!
eepeth
LOA.]
ç.
it,
and grin
eth
forth
fruite
with patience,
as
it
is
Luk.8.z
5,
And contrariwife,it
is
a
aloft vndoubted
marke
of
an hypo
-
crite who neuer was indued with
a
true
faith, when
as
his
faith
is
temporarie,
and hee falleth away,
according to
that
1.10113.19.
I.Ioh,z.x
9.They
went
out
fromvs,but
they were
not
of
vs;
for
if
they
hadbeen
o
f'vs,they'
oild
hauecontinued with
vs,
Tut
this
commeth
wale
that
it
might
appeare
that
they
are net all
of
-Vs.
The
fecond reafon may
bee taken from
the
example
of§.Sea.7.
thofe
who
haue grieuoufly
fallen,and yet
haue
continued
in
The
tcve'fih
the
hate
of
grace, and haue been
railed
and
reilored againe
'ojexam
ter,
by vnfained repentance
:
and thus
did Dauid
fall
and
that
from
ai
S
1.10
r
1.
moll
grieuoufly,and yet
was
not
depriued
ofGods
fpirit,
as
appeareth,Pfal.5
x,
x
o,Y
i
.
Thus did
`Peter fall
by
denying
his
Ivlailer,
Noahby
drunkenneffe, Lot
by
incefl,
and
yet
they
were
not
depriued
ofthofe
graces
which they
had
receiued,
howfoeuer for
the
time
they
weremuch eclipfed
and
weak.
ned;
neither
were
they
reie&ed
by
God, but
upon
their true
repentance were receïued into his former loue and fauour.
The
lafl reafonmay
be taken
from the weakenes and
ina-
§,Seri.$.
bilitie
of
the
caufes
which fhould hinder our
perfeuerance
The
lafi reafon,
and make
vs
fall
away.
For there
is
nothing
in the world
fo
taken from
the
powerfull,
but
it
is
altogether too
weake
to worke
this defe-
anab
:large
of
the
u(
¿lion. For
firfl,
afflictions
cannot
depriue
vs
of
grace,
nor
zLhcaich
fhes
ould
hinder
our perfeuerance,
as
it
is
Rom.S.3
5.
for
though
they
hinder
our per
-
arc the
firie
trial, yet they do
not
burne vs,but
refine
vs
from
Rera
ce.
our
drofl`e,
neither doe
they hinder
our
faluation,but rather
carafe
unto vs a farre
moll excellent
and eternall
tbairrht
of ;lo-
Cor.
.
t
.
rie,
as
it
is
z.Cor.4.i
7.Nor
yet our
flefh:for
though it
be
ne-
z
uer
fo
firong,
yet the fpirit
ofGod
dwelling
in
vs,
will
in
the
end mortifie and
fubdue
it.
Not
the
world:
for our
Captaine
ChriP bath
ouercome
it,not
onely
for
himfelfe,
but
alto
for
his
members,Ioh.i
6,
3
3.
yea
and
lice
enableth
vs
alfo
by
his
3
Y
y
holy