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O'biecliions
taken
from
telimonies ofScriptHre,
anfwered.
713
faith,which teacheth
vs
to
haue
care
not
only
ofour
felues
but
allo
of
thofe
that
belong
to
vs.
Laftly,whereas
he
faith,
that
couetous men doe erre from the
faith,
he
meaneth
the
do&rine
of
the
Gofpell, which teacheth
that
we fhould,not
lay
vp
our treafures vpon
the earth,nor
ferue
this vnrightcous
Mammon. And fecondlie,
though it
fhould be vnderftood
of
iuílifying
faith,
it
were
nothing
to
their
purpofe,feeing a
couetous
worldling
may
erre
from the
faith,though
he
were
neuer indued
therewith.
Seeing
therefore
thefe
places are
to
be
vnderilood
of
the do&rine
offaith,
which
a
worldling
and reprobate
may
know and
profeffe
as
well
as
the ele6t,
therefore they
make
nothing
for
the proouing
of
the poffibi-
litie
of
a
defeálion
from
a
true iuflifying faith, and confe-
quently
infringe
not the
do&rine
of
perfeuerance.
The
fixteenth
place
obie&ed
is
Heb.6.4.
For
it
is
rmpof-
4.Sec`
.8.
ble
that
they
uh
chwere
once
lightned,and haue
tatted
of
the
bed-
Heb.6.4.
cx-
uenlygift,
and
were made
partakers
of
the
holy
Ghoft. 5.
cflnd
pcundcd.
haue tatted
of
thegood word
of
God,and
of
the
powers
of
the world
to
come.
6.
If
they
fall
atbay,fbould
be
renelbedagaine
by
repen-
tance,
feeing they
crucifie
againe
to themfelues
the fanne
of
God,
and
make
a
mocke
of
him.
From
which
place
they thus reafon:
Thofe who
are
inlightned
and
haue
tailed
of
the heauenly
gift,
and were
made
partakers
of
the holy
Ghoft,
and
haue
tailed,&c.they
may
fo
fal
away,as ÿ
they cannot be renewed
by repentance:but
fuch are
the
ele&
of
God
and his faithfull
ones;
and therefore
the
ele&
and faithfull may
fo fall
away
as
that
they
cannot
be renewed by repentance.
To
which
_I
anfwere,
that
there
is
no found part
in
this fyllogifine; for
firft
the
afhumption
is
to be denied
as
falle; neither
can
it
be
prooued that the
Apoftle
doth
here vnderftand
an
ele&
and
faithful! man
in
this defcription,
but
an
hypocrite
who
hath
onely
a
temporarie faith
;
feeing
he
doth
not
here
fet
downe
peculiar properties
of
the
ele&
and faithfull;
but
fuch
as
are
gr
common vnto them
with temporizing
hypocrites
:
as
may
appeare
if
we
examine
the particulars. For by
illightning
he
What
is
vnderílandeth the illumination
of
the
mind with
the
know-
ledge
'h
t
cy
i
ofGofpell,which
is
common to the faithfull
with by-
7,ghtaing.
pocrites,
who
oftentimes
ttaine vnto an hiíloricall
know-
.