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Ol'ieítion
r
taken
from
tef
imoníei
of
Scrip
ture, ufwered.
roote
o
fill
euill,
which
wxhile
fame
lu/leda
fier
they
erred
from the
faith.
From which
places
they thus
reafon:
They
that
may
make fhipwracke
offaith,and deny,depart
and
erre from
the
faith,
theymaylofe their
faith,
and
confequently
fá.11
away
and
perifh; but
force may
make fhipwracke
of
their faith,
&c. and
therefore
force may
lofe
their
faith,
fall
away
and
perifh.
I
anfwere,
that
this
word faith
is
diuerflie
taken in
the
Scriptures; fometimes for
the doálrine
of
faith
So A61.
M.6.7.
6.7.
And
a
great corpanie
of
Prieli
a
were
obedient to
the
faith.
Gal.
3.z.
Ga1.3.z.
Receirted
yee the
fOrit
by
the
worker
of
the
14w,
or
by
GaI.
;I
:
;S.
the hearing
of
faith?
So
Rom.12.6.
Ga1.3. 23. Sometimes
Rom,
;.
;,
for fidelititi
e
or faithfulnes in
the
performance
ofones
word
Heb.
I1,6,
and
prom
ife.
So
Rom.3.3.
Shall
their
vnbeleefe make
the
faith
of
God
without
of
elt
?
Sometimes
fora
perfwafion whereby
we beleeue
God.
So
Heb.11.
And
hereof
alto there
are
di-
uers
kinds betides
the
true
iuflifying
faith;
as
the faith
ofmi-
racles,
a
general(
or
hifforicall
faith,a legall faith,a
tempora.,
rie faith, ofall which
the queffion
is
not
to be vnderflood,
but
onely
of
a
true, liuely,
and iuflifying
faith,
where_
by the beleeuer doth
apprehend and applie vnto
himfelfe
particularly Chrifl
and
his
righteoufleffe
and merites.
Now
the
places
before alleaged
are
not
to be vnderflood
ofthis
iuflifying faith,
but
of
the
do&rine
of
faith,
and therefore
make
nothing againíl
the
dodfrine
of
perfeuerance. For
fir
fl,whereas
Paul
faith
that
Hymeneau
and
e4lexanderhad
made
fhipvvracke
offaith,
his
meaning
is,that
they
were
be-
come
heretikes
and apoflates from
that truth
which they
had
2.Titn.t.i
8.
profeffed.
And
this appeareth
2.Tim.2.18.
where
(peaking
of
this Alexander and
?hyletm,
he
faith,that
they had erred
concerning the
truth,
Paying,
that
the
ref
lrreCtion was
pall
&Tim,q.
r,
alreadie. Secondly,
whereas he
faith,
x.Tim
4.1. that
force
fhould depart
from the faith, he expoundeth
his
meaning
in
the
words
following,faying,
that
they
fhouldgiue
heede to
the
f
irits oferror,and
dotfrine ofdiuelr,
that
is,
they
fhould
leaue
the
fincere
truth
ofthe
Gofpell, and
fuffer
themfelues
to
bee
feduced
with the
herefies
of
Antichrifl. Thirdly,whereas
he
faith
cap.5.v.8.that they that
prouide
not
for
thofho
are
vn-
dertheir
chargedense
thefaith; hee meaneth
the
doó`lrine
of
faith