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Ohie?l
ons
taken
from
tefitmonies
ofScripture,anfi,ered',
ledge
ofthe great
myfleries
ofChriflianreligion,
fo as
they
can
difcourfe
of
them in ordinarie talke,
yea
and become
Preachers and teachers
thereof
unto
others;
as
appeareth in
the
example
ofludar,
Demar, Iulian and many
others. And
thus
doth
the Apoflle expound himfelfe, Heb.
ío.26.
Ifwee
Heb.
i
o.26,
frnne
willingly
after
we
haue
receiored
the
knowledge
of
the
truth,
there
rernaineth
no
more
facrifice
for
fumes.
So
likewife
by ta-
Wl,at
is
meant
fling
of
the heauenly
gift
of
the word
of
God,
and
ofthe
by
tatting
the
powers
ofthe
world to
come,
we are
to
vnderfland
Tome
ge_
beauenlygift,
nerall
approbation
of
thefe
things
in
the
iudgement,vvhich
inclineth alto the
affe&lion
to like
ofand
to
defire
them
;
but
yet
feuered from
a
refolute purpofe to
compaffe
and
inioy
them. And this
alto
is
common vnto hypocrites; for
as
the
Merchant
being
about to
buy
a
parcell
of
wines,
doth talle
of
them,and thereupon doth
approoue them
as
good,like
of
and
defire
them;
&
yet when
he
knoweth what
a
deare price
hee mull giue for
them,
chufeth
rather
to
Ieaue
them
vn_
bought
and
to
goe
his way
:
fo
the
hypocrite hearing
what
excellent
things
are prepared
for
Gods
faithfull
ones,doth
like
and
defire
them,
but
yet
howfoeuer hee liketh the talle
and
rellifh
of
them,
yet when
he
knoweth that
vvhofoeuer
will buy
them,
mull
deny himfelfe and his
worldly lufis,for.
fake
the world
and the vanities therof,mortifie
the flefh,
and
take
vp
his
croffe
and
follow Chrifl,he leaueth
them
as
being
too
deare, and
rather
will haue
none
ofthem,
then
hee will
come
to
fo
high
a
price.
And
fuch are
thofe
temporizing
hy-
pocrites which
our
Sauiour
defcribeth
in
the
parable, Luke
Luk.8,s
;.
8.13. But
they
that
are
on
the
flans,
are
they
which when
they
haue heard,
receiue
the
wordwith
ioy,
but
they
haue
no
rootes,
which
for
a
while
Geleeue,
Gut
in
the
time
o
f
tentatio,
gee
away.
Such an
one
was
Baalam,
who
perceiving the
bleffings
vvhich
were referued for the
righteous,
defired
to
die
their
death.that he
might
inioy
them,but yet
would
not
liue
their
life,nor to
obtain
affurance
ofthcfe
ioyes, leaue
his cone
-
toufneffe
and impietie. So the young man
in
the Gofpell
Math.
zo.zr.
defired
to attaine vnto
eternall life, and
came
vnto Chrifl to
be inflruéled in
the
meanes
whereby
he
might
come vnto
afhurance
thereof ;but
when
he
heard
that
he
mull
fell
all
hee
had,