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ObieEfions
taken
from
teffimonies
of
Scripture,dnfrrered.
dog
fore they who
are
truely regenerate,may
fall
away and
end
in
the
flefh.
I
anfwere,
that
the
affumption
is
falfe:
for
by
fpirit
in this
place
is
not
vnderflood
the fpirit
of
regeneration,
but
the dodlrine
of
the
fpirit,or the
fpirituall
dodlrine, which
is
the Gofpell;
and
thus
doth
our
Sauiour
Chrift
call
the
words
ofthe
Gofpell which
he
preached,
1pirit
and
tt
fe,
Iohn
63.6..101m
6.63;
and
in e!1`Trftfpedl
the Apoflle calleth the Miniílers
ofthe
.
.
new Teflament
the
Auinillers
of
the
f]
irit,
and the preaching
thereof
the
mint/iration
of
the
f/iirtt,
z.
Cor.3.6.8.
besaufe
:.C31". 36.8.
when
the Gofpell
is
preached,the fpirit
is
giuen
to
thofe
that
beleeue.
So
that
the
Apoftle in
this
place
doth not
accufe
them
for
their
falling from true
regeneration, but
from
the
profeflìon
of
this
Gofpell which hadbeen
taught vnto
them.
For
whereas they had learned
by
the
preaching
ofthe
Gof-
pell,that
a
man
is
iu(lified
by
faith alone
without
the workes
of
the
law, they
fell
from this
truth
which formerly they
had
received, looking to
bee
iuftified
by the
workes
of
the
law.
Secondlic,I
anfwere
vnto the propofition,
that
by the flefh
we
are
not to
vnderfland the
(late
ofman
vnregenerate,
but
the
flefhly dodtrine
of
the
falfe
Apof
}les
which fauourcd
w
hallie ofcarnal
and worldiie wifdome,becaufe
they
taught
that
they
fhould
not
ref}
wholly vpon
the
righteoufheffe
of
Chrift
for
their
iuflification, and
fo
afcribe
veto
him the
foie
glorie thereof,
but
rather
in
part they fhould relie vpon
their
owne legall righteoufneffe,
and
fo
(hare
with Chrii}in
the
praife
of
their
iuf
ification
;
the which
may well
be
called
a
flefhly
dodlrine,feeing
nothing
is
more
agreeable and
plea
-
fing
to
flefh and
blood
then
to
rob
God
of
his
honour,that
we
may
arrogate
it
vnto
our
felues.
And therefore
to
bee
perfe6ted by the flefh,
cannot
lignifie
falling away
into the
Elate
ofvnregeneration,but
a
defection from the
profeffion
of
the do
&rine
ofthe
Gofpell, which teacheth
that
wee
are
iuftified
by
faith
alone in
Chrift, vnto the
dodlrine
ofthe
falfe
Apoflles,
who
taught
them to
Tooke
for
the perfe&ing
of
their righteoufneffewhich
was
begun
by
the Gofpell,
by
performing
the workes
of
the
law, and by receiving
the
le-
gallfacrament
ofcircumcifion which was made
in
'the
flefh,
without
which they
affirmed
that Chrift
would
not
profit
Z
z
3
them;