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Obieffions taken

from

tef

imonies

o

fScripture,anffered,

purging

common

to

hypocrites,wee

are

to vnderfland this

place, and

not

of

the

true

purging

by Chrifls blood,in

which

whofoeuer

are

wafhed,

can

neuer become

blind,

nor for-

get

that

they

were

purged by

him;

and therefore the

affuinp-

tion be.ng

vnderflood according

to

the

Apofiles

meaning

is

directly falle.

4

sea.

2.

The ninteenth

place

obie6led

is

2.Pet.2.20.

For

ífthey

af_

ter

they

haue

efeapetl

f

-otn

the

fi1thinef

of

the

world through

the

txpoundcd.

k

zo?V1edX

e

of

the

Lord, and

of

the

Sauiour Iefiu

Chrifl,are

yet

tangled

againe

therein

and

ouercome,

the

latter

end

is worfe

with

them then the

beginning.

2

t

.

For

it

had

been

better

for

them

not

to

haue

,nolirne

the

way

of

righteoufneffe,

then

after

they

haue

knowne

it,

to

turne

from

the

holy

commandement gíuest

Dato

them.

22.

But

it

is

come

unto

them according

to

the

true

prouerbe,

The

deg is

returned

to his

vomit,

and

the

fow

that

;VIM.

tvalhed to

the

wallowing

in the mire.

From which

place

they

thus

reafon

:

They

who

haue

efcaped

the

filthineífe

ofthe

world,

through the

knowledge

ofGod

and

Chrifl,and haue

caPt

vp

their

finnes

which

oppreffed

their

foules

and

confci-

cnces, and haue been

wafhed

from their corruptions,

may

fall away from

grace and become reprobates

;

for they

may

be tangled

in

the world

and ouercome, they

may haue

their

latter

end worfe

then

the

beginning,

they

may

turne from

Gods

commandements, theymay returne to their vomit

of

finne,and wallow themfelues againe

in

the

filthie mire

of

their

corruptions:

but

fuch are

elect and

faithfull;

and

there-

fore

the

eleóI

and faithfull

may

fall

away from grace and

be-

come reprobates.

I

anfwere,firfl,

that

here

againe

is

no

di_

rei`i

affertion

that

fuch

as

hee

here

defcribeth

fhould

fall

in-

to

this

hate, but

a

condi

tionall fuppofition,

if

they

doe thus

behaue

themfelues;

and therefore

though

we

fhould

by

this defcription vnderfland the

faithfiall,no

thing

could

be

neceífarily inferred. Secondlie,

l'denie

the

affumption.

For the

Apof+Je

doth not

here

vnderfiand the

elect and

true

beleeuers, whom

elfewhere he

affirmeth

to

be

borne

anew

not

x.Per.t.s

;.sS

ofmortall

feede,

but

of

immortall

by

the

word

of

Godwhich

indu-

Verf

y.

reth

for

euer; and

to 6eehept

by

the

power

of

God

through

faith

untofaluation.

But

onlie

temporizers

and

hypocrites,who

fuffer

ism