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Sea.9.
The example
ofthejfrae.
73
4
Foie ions
aping
ii
perfeuerance
taken from example.r.anr
But
they
B
are
fore
ofyore 1fß;
j
tiû).whieb_be1eeuenot,.
for
Iefùs
knew
frow
be
beginning
ya'hzch
they
mere
mho
beleeuid
not,.
.
and
who,l
ould6etray
him.
Butit
is
further
obíeded, that
our Sauiour Chrift
faith,
Iohn
1.7.12..
that
Iudas.was
giuen vnto
him by
his
father,
and
confenuently it
followeth,that
he
was
else} and
indued
with-
faith;.
Ianfwere,
"thatthere
is a
twofold:
git:ìiagveto
Chrií
{
,and
a
twofold
elee}ion
:
the firít
is,
when
as
men
are
giuen
vnto Chrifi
that
they
may
be vnited. vnto him,
and
fo
be redeemed,iuftified, and
famed,
and when
as
they
are ele-
bed
in Gods eternall
counfeIl
voto eternall
life;'
and
in this
fenfe
fudis
was
not
giuen
to
Chrifl,notele
&ed
by
Gd,fee-
ing
he
was
the
forme
of
perdition;
whoi
:deftruetion
was
foretold,
and
no
better then
a
diuell
by
Chriftsowne
tefli-
monie.
The.othergiuing to
Chtift
and
elee
}ionis, when
as
they were
giuen vnto him
ofGod,
and;elee
}ed
by Chrifi to
beare the
office
ofanApotle
and
robe
his.difci:ples;addthus
only;luda,s
was
giuen
by Go.d,and.ele&ed;by
Chriki
tòthis
Apoliol
icall
office
aed
:
fune}ion,
ac.cordiuiß
to thatt
Haue:
I
:
not
elected or chofenyou twelue,
and
one
of
you
is
a
diuell?
Neither
can
we.vnderftand
it
of
the other donation
&
eleeti-
on,vnleffe we will
fay,that Chrifi
redeemed
not
thofe
whom:.
God
eleeted,or
rhathe
wanted power or
will
to-effeahis
fart.
thersend
;feeing.hee
did not
:faue.him,who
was gr'ienivr
of
him by
his
father that.he
might
be redeemed.
To
conclude,
.
wemay
rather
inferrer
from.this
place,that none
who
are
gi-
uen
veto
Chrift
can
perifh or
be-
lof},feeing:our Sauiour faith.
plainely and
thou-t.exception,
that
none giuen voto him
by
his father,are
b.y
himloft, but
this
lud
&the child
ofper-
dition,
who
was
giuen to
be
his Apoftle,
but
not
to
be
re
deemed
and
faued,
Peeing
this would
haue
direetlie
crofl'ed
the
prophecies
of
hohe
Scriptures
which foretold
his
de-
ftruetion.
And
thefe are
the
examples<which
are alleaged, and
obie
¿led
again!}
the
certaintie
of
our
perfeuerance by
Bellarmine,
the
great
Goliah
ofthe
Romifh Philiftims.
Befides
which
fome
others
are
obieaed
to the
fame
pur-
pofe
by
other
men.
As
ftll
the
example
of
the
Ifraelites-in.
the