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blot-lions
againf
per
f
arerance
t
&ken
from
examples,an!:
renewed,
but
that it might not
faile
at
ail,as
the word
f
gnifieth, which
is
not to bee referred to the
tirne,as
though
this fhould
be the rneanir
g,i.t
(halt
not
fade for euer,
but
unto the
thing that
it
fhould
not
faile
at
all.
And
thus
Heb.i.
cz,
the
fame
word
is
vfcd,Heb.
t.
i
2.
and
,oppofed
not
onely
to
perifhing and
waxing
old,
but
alto to
all
manner
ofchange.
Againe,if
Peters
faith fhould haue
failed at
all,though it
had
againe been renewed,
yet
thefe
abfurdities mull
needs
fol-
low;
both that
hee
muff haue
had
a
new faith,differing
at
leaft,as we
fay
in
number,frotn
his
fir} faith, which
had
fai-
led,and
was
loll
and perifhed, and
alfo
that
Chrifis
prayer
was
not
heard,
who prayed,not
that
his
faith
might
bee
a-
gaine renewed
after
it
was
loft, but that
that
faith which
Peter now
had might not faile.
4.Se
.7
The
feuenth
example
is
of
Simon
catagus,which
is
altoge-
Te
example
of
ther impertinent
to
the purpofe,
fed
ng
he
neuer had
iuílify_
simoa Magus.
ing
faith, nor
fauing
grace,
and therefore could
not
lofe
them.
But
let
vs
conclude
their reafon,and thenanfwere
it:
Simon
c.ii4agus
loll
his iuftifying
faith,
and
fell
from
grace
:
Simon
(.24,
rus was a
beleeuer,
ele6ted
to
eternal!
life
:
Therefore forre who
beleeue
and
are
eleh,lofe
their
faith,
and
fall
from
grace.
T
anfwere,
both
the
premiffes are falfe,
and therefore the
conclnfion
cannot
be true
;
for
firfl
Simon cvtitagus
could
not
lofe
that
which
he
neuer
had,namely
faith and
fauing grace,
and
therefore the propofition
is
vntrue: fecondly,the
affump-
tion being vnderílood according
to the queflion,
of
a
true
iuflifying
faith,
is
likewifefalfe. For
whereas
they vrge that
Aá.8,í3.
Simon
c
iTtagus
is
Paid
to
haue
beleeued, and
to
haue been
baptized,
and therefore was regenerate
and
indued
with
a
true
iuflifying
faith,it followeth
not;
for he
only
had
an
hi-
floricall
faith,wliereby
he
gauc
his affent
to
the truth
oftheir
de
&crinc,wrought in
him by
the
admirable
miracles
which
hee
law
done by the Apofiles, which
was feuered from
the
power
offandtification and
true godlineffe.
He
was
wafhed
onely
with the outward water
in
baptifine, and not
in
the
la-
uer
of..
regeneration
by
Gods
fpirit;
as
it
plainely
appeareth
by