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Obiettions
again/
perfeuerance taken
from
examples,
anf 737
feeing
wee
are
not
hereby
to
vnderfland,
that it
was
Chrifa
hinsfelfe,
but
onlie
a
facrament
of
his
blood;
it being
vfuall
in
the
Scriptures
to
call
the
fignes
by
the
name
of
the things
fignified.
The
fecond
example
obie6led
is
of
the
Corinthians.
From
§.Seel
IO.
'which
they
thus
conclude:
The example
of
All theCorinthians were indued with true
faith,
iuflified
the
corintbi-
ans.
and
fan&ified
But
force
ofthe
Corinthians
loft
their faith,and
fell
from
grace,for
theycómitted
fins
which ouerthrow faith,and
deflroy
the
confeience,
as
namelie, they hued
in
drun-
kenneffe,
they maintained fornication, they_deniedthe
refurrecrlion,
&c.
Therefore
force
hawing
faith,
and
being
iuflified
and
fan
-
aified,may
lofe
their faith,and
fall
from grace.
To
fay
nothing
of
the
forme
of
this fyllogiftne,
I
anfwere
vnto their argument, that
as
it
cannot bee truely
Paid
in
the
generali,
that
all
the Corinthians
were
indued with
faith,i.u-
ftified,and
fandified,
fo
neither that
all
did
not
liue in thefè
finnes,nor maintaine
that
damnable herefie,that there
fhould
be no
refurre6
ion
:
but
force
onely were faithfull and
iufli
fed,
and
forne
other only committed
and
maintained thefe
fumes.
Iftherefore it
be generally
faid
ofall that
they
had
faith,or that
they
fell
from grace
by maintaining
thefe
fins,
it
is
vtterly falfe:ifeither be
affirmed
but
of
force
onely,they
doe
not
difpute
ad
idem,
and
fo
conclude
nothing.
Yea
but
the
Apofile
faith,
that
they
were
fanc`hified,
iuflified,
and
I.Cor.6.rr.
wafhed
from
their
finnes
by Gods
fpirit.
I
anfwere,that
hee
Both
not
fay,all
were,
but
fome
onelie.
Such were
fore
ofyon,
but
you
areu'a/hed,c-c.
But
though
it
fhould be granted
that
he had
faid
fo
of
them
all,
as
he calleth all
at Rome Chrifli-
ans
and
Saints, and
allar Galatia
the
fonnes
ofGod;
yet
no-
thing wouldhereoffollow.
For
to
bee
iuft and
fan&ified
is
taken two
waies; fira,generally and improperly before men;
fecondly,fpecially and properly
before
God.
In
the former
refpeót men are
Paid
to
bee hí+, andholy,
when
as
they
haue
receiued
the
facrament
of
regeneration, and
doe
profefhe
themfelues members
ofthe
Church
which
is
iuftified
and
fang
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