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dieNoni
?ainf
ti
pert
uerance taken
fro-4
exammple
e
ant
alreadie
takenaway
in
My
anfwere
to
the
firíl
tellimcnie
ob-
ie&edagaitifl
perfeuerance
;
brieflie we
are
to
anfe'iere,
that
if
they
meane by
blotting
out, Gods declaring that they
were
neuer
written
therein
wee
doe
not
denie it,as
making
nothing
for
them,"
not
againfl our queflion. But
if
they
ern_
derfiand
a
blotting
out
offuch
as
are
alreadie
written,
then
we
denie
their
confequence,there
being
not
the
Iike
reafon
betweene
thefe
two
:
for howfoeuer they who ouercome
may
fitly
bee
faid
not
to
bee
blotted
out
of
Gods booke, be-
caufe
they
are
written
in
it,
yet
it
cannot bee
Paid
that they
who
doe
not
ouercome
(hall
bee
blotted out,
feeing they
were:neuer
written
in
-this
booke
of
life.
Laflly,:
they
obieì
the admonitions and threatnings,
§ Set
.S.
which
are common
in
the
Scriptúres;
whereby
the
hohe
Admonitions
Ghofl
feemeth to inferre,
that
the
faithfull
are
in,
danger
to
and threat-
fallaway
from
grace,and
to
lofe
their-faith, and
Other
gifts
nings,doenot
of
Gods
fpirit. As,
let him
that
thmkerh
hee
f
anderh;
tai
e
pr®otte
that
roe
heed
he
f41
Ta
e
heed
le
át
an tune
there
le
to
ve
o
ou;:mar
fall
from
IC
f
}'
i
f
grate.
an
eudll
heart
and vnfaithfull,
to
depart
from
the
liethig
God.
z.Cor.to.tz.
But this argument
I
haue alreadie anfwered
when
as
I
proo_
Heb 3.11.
ued
the certaintie
of
our election, and
Cooke
äWáythe
obie-
See
z.
booke
pintas againft this
aífurance
;
vnto which
place
forbreuitie
chap,u
fake,
I
referre
the
reader for his fuller fatisfaction.
CHAP.
XX.
Obier;lions
againft the
doarine
of
perf
merancegrotsndedupon
éxample;r,
anfivered.
And
thus'
much for
atifwere
to
thofe obiections
§.Se?.I.
againíl
perfeuerance
which
are
grounded vp-
The
example
of
on teflimonies
of
Scriptures.
Now
wee
are
to
the
euilangels.
Come
vnto the
examples
which
are
allcaged to
the
fame
purpofe;
amongíl
which
diuers are
vtterly impertinent to
the
queílion
in
hand
;
:
for whereas
it
is thus
propounded,whether
a
man
ele&ed,iuflified,and
fan.-
eetified,
may
fall
from
this
his
fiate,
lofe
his
faith and
all
fan
-
cifying
graces, and
become
a
reprobate,and
a
call
-away,
they obie& the example
of
the
euill
Angds,Sauf,
Iudac,
and
Aaa
z
fuch