7w
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
jô
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