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ObieF1ions
taken
from
teftimonies
o
fScripture,
jasa
fevered.
y
i
had, and
give
it
to the poore,
and take
vp
his croffe and
fol-
low Chrifl,he relinquifhed
his former
fuite
and
went
away
forrowfull.
LaftIy,by
being
made partakers
ofthe
holie
Ghofl,he
vn-
What
is
meant
derfiandeth the gifts
of
the holie
Ghoft,
which
alto
a're
of
by
being
made
two
forts
:
firft, fuch
as
are
the gifts
ofthe
fanélifying fpirit,
partakers
boy
of
.
but
not
the gifts
of
fan6Iification,which are allo common
to
hypocrites,as
knowledge
of
the Gofpell, a
fudden
and tern-
porarie
ioy in
hearing
the
word,
a
defire
to
be conformable
thereunto
in fome
things,
and
fuch
like.Secondly,fuch
as
are
the
gifts
ofthe
fpirit
as
it
fanéifieth,
or the gifts
of
fandlifi-
Mar.6.
:o.
cation,as
faith,charitie,
repentance and
fuch
like, which
are
peculiar to the
ele&.
Now
we
are
to
vnderfiand
the
Apoffle
in this
place
of
the former
common
gifts, and
not
of
thefe
latter
which
are
proper to the faithfull.
But
it
is
further
vrged,that
we are here
to vnderftand
the
4.Sea.9.
ele&
and
fa
ithfull which
fall away,becaufe he
faith
that
they
What
is
meant
crucifie
Chrifi againe vnto
themfelues
;
whereof it
fallow-
by
crucifying
cth,that
hee was once crucified
for them
before,
and conte-
Cbri¡l
againe.
quently
that
they
were
ele
&ed, feeing
Chrifl
died only for
fuch.
I
anfwere,
firfi,
that
the word
(
againe)
is
not
to be re-
ferred
to the words following
(vnto
themfelues)
but to
the
word
crucifying
going
before. Secondly,by crucifying
vnto
themfelues,we
are
not to
vnderftand crucifying or
dying for
them,
or
for
their faluation, whereby
is
noted
the
finali
end
of
Chrifs death,
but
his crucifying
by them
(as
they were
the fpiteful and tnalitious infiruments
of
his
death)vnto their
Tuft
condemnation. For
as
the
Iewes did once malitiouflie
crucifie
Chrifl our
Sauiour vpon
the
crotte,
fo
thofe
are
faid
to
crucifie
him againe
who
defpife
and contemne
him, and
his fufferings,and
make
amocke
of
them. And in this
fente
`Paul
faith,that
the world
ma
crucified
vnto
hzm,
andbee unto
the
world,Gal.6. i
4. that
is,
as
the world did
contemne and
Gal.6.
I4;
bafely efteeme
him,
fo
did
hee
contemne and
bafely eíleeme
the world
and
the vanities thereof.
Secondly
I
anfwere,
that there
is
no foundneffe
oftruth
4.Se7.io.
in
the propofition,although
the affumption
fhould
be
gran-
The
fpcech
of
ted;
for he
loth
not
fay
that
fuch
as
he had formerly defcri-
the
413ofile
net
bed