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Matth,
r;.
zo
Heb.6.4.5.
g.Sea.6.
G
al.
5
4
How the
Ga-
dathians were
Paid
to be
abo-
1jbed
from
Chrift.
71
0ObieNions taken from
teftir
ones
of
Scripture,anfivered.
them. The
which theirpradlife hee
condemneth ofextreme
folly,
becaufe
they
left
the
do6trine
of
the Gofpell, which
brought
them into the glorious liberty
ofthe
Tonnes
ofGod,
and reduced theinfelues
into
the (late offeruitude
and
bon-
dage vnder
the
law
and the
curie
thereof,from
which
Chrift
hath
deliuered thofe
that
beleeuing
in
him,doe wholly
and
folie
reel
vpon
him for their
iuflification and faluation,
And
this expofition
agreeth moil
clecrely
with
the context
of
this chapter, and the maine drift
ofthe
Apofile
in this place.
But though
wee íhould expound
thofe
words
according
to
that
feiife
which they
force
out
of
them,
yet would
they
make
nothing
for
their
purpofc
:
for
hee
loth
not
write
this
veto
particular
beleeuers,
who
were truely
iuflified
and
fanaified,but
vnto
thofe foolifh
Galathians who
had left
the
dodlrine
of
the Gofpell,
of
which
formerlie they
had
made
force
profeflïon,
and imbraced
the
doh
}rive
of
the
falte
Apofiles. And therefore
he faith
not,that
they were'truly and
throughly
regenerated by
Gods fanaifying
fpirit,
but
only
that
they had
begun in
the
fpirit,
that
is, had
in
force
meafure
bin inlightned
and taflcd
of
the
heauenly
gift,and
the
word
ofGod,
receiuing
it
for
the prefent with ioy,and
making an
outward
profeffion
thereof,
like thofe temporizers
of
whom,
our
Sauiour
Chrift,
and
the
Apofile fpeake,
Matth.
i
3.20.
Heb.6.4.5
The fourteenth
place obiecrled,is
Galath.5.4.
Te
areabo-
liJhed
from Chr
ft
(or,
as
it
is
in the
originall,
yee
are
made
voile and
emptie
of Chri/t, that
is,
Chrift
is
vnto you
vn-
profitable)
whofoeuer
are
iuflified
by
the
lazy
,
yee
are
fallen
from
grace.
From
which
place they
thus
real-on
:
The
Ga-
lathians
looking
to bee
iuflified
by
the law
were
aboli-
fhed from
Chrifl
and
did
fall from
grace
:
but
they
were
eleeled
and
indued with faith
:
and
therefore
force
who
are eleóled and
indued
with faith,
may bee
abolifhed
from
Chrifi
and
fall
from
grace.
I
anfwere
firfi
to
the affumption,
that
thofe
Galathians
which
looked to
bee
iuflified by
the
,
law,
were
not
ele&ed,
ifthey
did
perfeuere in
this their he-
relie;
and therefore
it
maketh
nothing
againfl
our queflion
lithe
propofition be vnderflood
offuch;
for
wee
grant
that
they