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from
teffimonier
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but
onely.maketh
a
gratious
promife
oflife and faluation
to
thole that
doe
perfeuere
to
the
end,
that
hereby they may
be incouraged
and confirmed
in
their
perfeuerance.
The
feuenth place obieóled is
Luk.t
8.1
3.
Bret
they
that are
theflones,
are
they
which when they
haue heard,receiue the
word
with
joy
;
but
they haste no
roots,which
for
a
while
beleene,but
in
the
time
of
tentation
doe
away.
From which
place
they
thus.
reafon:
They
that
heave
and receiue
the
word with
ioy
and
beleeue,may
fall
away:but
fuch
haue truc
faith;
and
therfore
fome
that
haue true
faith
;nay
fall
away. .I anfwere,
that
the,
afiitmption,natnely,that thefe here
defcribed haue
true faith,
.
is:falfe;
neither
are
thefe
the
infeparable
properties
of
a
true,
liuely and iuflifying
faith,
but
common with
the
temporary
faith,which
is
the
faithofhypocrites:
for
not
only
the
faith_
full attd ele6' doe
heave
and receiue the word
withioy,
and
alfo
beleeue,
that
is, after
an
hifloricall manner giue
their
aífent vnto
it,
but
alto
hypocrits
and reprobates,
as
the
A-
poflle
fheweth,Heb.
6 4..1.
But
it
will bee
,obieóIed
that
Chrifi
here fpeaketh
of
true
faith,
feeing he faith
that
they
beleeue, and therefore they want
not faith, but
onelie
perfeuerance.
I
anfwere,
that
as
faith
it
felfe
is
of
diuers
kinds,
fo
alfo
there;
are
diuers kindes
of
beleeuing, accor-
ding
to
the
feuerall
forts
of
faith, whereof they
are
ads.
There
is
a
generali faith, whole
ad
is
generally
to
be-
leeue and giue alfent
to
the
-truth
of
the
Scriptures;
there
is
a
temporarie faith, which
not
onely
giueth
affent,
but
alto
conceiueth
force
kind
ofioy
in
that
which
it-
beleeueth; and
there
is
a
true iullifying faith, which not
onely affenteth
to
the truth,butalfo
apprehet3deth and
applieth
that
which
it
Dbel
eeueth
to
the
vfe
and
benefit
of
the beleeucr.
Though
therefore the temporarie
faith
beleeueth,
that
is,affenteth
to
the-dodrine
offaith
as
being true,
and
fheweth it
felfe
in an
outward
profeflion, and
is
ioyned
with
a
reioycing
in
that
truth
which
it
beleeueth
and profefleth, yet
are
there diuers
things wanting
in
it,which
are
the
life
and
foule
oftrue
iufli-
fying
faith
;
for
firf}
this liuely faith
bringeth forth
the ripe
fruits
oftrue
godlinefle,
but
this
temporarie faith
nothing
elfe,but
the
blade
of
an
outward profefiìon.
Secondly,
the
true
§.Set7.3.
Luk
tR.c;
Oftbe
dirers
kinds
of
faith.
Heb.6.4.
5.
Ofthe
diffe-
rence betweene
temporarie
and
iußifying
faith.