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Obi'eílions
taken from Ceti
»ones
of
Scripture,4nf Bred
thrufl out
ofthe
company
of
the
faithful.And therfore
Daurd,
becaufe he
would
haue
Gods
vengeance againfl
thefe
wic-
ked
ones
plainlymanifefled,he del
reth
the
Lord
to
difcouer
thé,that
all
might
fenfiblie
difcerne.thé
to
be
but
reprobates.
,ae5
The
fecond
place is
Pfalm.
sr.io.
Create
in
me
acleane
Pfalcu.Si.to
heart
O
God,
and
renew
a'
right
f
iirit
within
?nee.
From
which
place
they
thus reafon
:
They
that
may
lofe
clean
neffe
ofheart
and
Gods
fpirit,
may
alto
fall away
:
but
the,
faithful'
may
lofe
both,as
appeareth.by
the prayer
of`Dauid;
'auid
loft
not
and
therefore
the faithfull
may fall away.
I
anfwere,that
this,
cteanneffeof
affumption
is
falle,
neither
can
it
be
confirmed
out
of
this
heart and
Gods
place. For
firft
it
followeth
not,
thatbecaufe Dauid in
his-
fpirát.,
fenfe
and feeling
difcerned
not
his
cleanneffe
ofheart,,
nor
the
fpirit
ofGod, that
therefore
hee was
deflitute
ofthem,,
fecing
the iudgeinent
ofthe
fenfe
is
often deceiued,
as
bet.
fore
I
haue
(hewed, the gifts
and graces
ofGod
not appear
ring
in
grieuous.tentations,or being for
a
time couered
with
our.
corruptions.:
Secondlie,Dateid.iri_praying for
thefe,doth
notprouethat
he
was
deflitute
of
them,
but rather that
hee
was indued
with
them
in fome meafure: for
vnleffe his
hart
hadbeen
clenfed,he could
not
haue defired
cleanneffe;
and
ifhe
had
not
been
indued
with Gods
fpirit,
he could
neuer
haue made this,effe6uall prayer
that
Gods
fpirit
might bee
renewed.
Thirdlie,
this
phrafe
of
creating doth
not
prooue
that
he was
vtterly depriued
of
cleanneffe,of
hart,for
it
is
im-
properly vfed,
as
appearereth
by the next
phrafe
ofrenew-
ing,wheréby
he expoundeth his meaning
:
but
therefore
he
thus
fpeaketh;
that
hee
might
in
all
humilitie
confeffe
his
great
corruption, which made
him thinke
that
a
little pur-
ging
was
not
fucient,
vnleffe
the
Lord,
as
it
were created
all
anew.
Fourthly,
this
is
not
fo much
to
be vnderflood
of
the
fpirit
ofGod
it.felfe
once
giuen,as
ofthe
gifts
ofthe
fpi-
_
rit,which
were
not
vtterlyloft,
but
fora
time did lie
hidden,
and in
refpea
of-their
meafure and
degree
were impaired
and
diniinifhed
through
his
grieuous fall,and therefore
hee
defire.th
to
haue them
renewed and
increafed.
Laflly,Dauid
taketh
away ÿ
force
ofthis obieation
in
the next
verfe,where
hç_dcfreth
that
the
fpirit
ofGod
fhould
not
bee
taken
from
him
4.10.z
6.