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,
anfwered.
743
that
if
thefe
future euents
had
no
other
ground
but
or
owne will
or
power, they would
certainly
bee
vncertaine:
but
feting their
certaintie
is
grounded
vpon
the infal-
lible
promifes, immutable loue
and omnipotent
power
of
God,
we may
as
well
be
affured
ofthem,
as
ofany thing
pre
-
lent.
And howfoeuer we
are
often afläulted
with doubting,
and cannot aífuredly determine
of
our perfeuerance,
when
.
welooke
vpon our owne weakeneffe and frailtie,
yet
this
followeth
not that
our
grace,faith,andiufíification
are
not
true,
if
wee doe
notnouriíh
this
doubting, but
labour
and
ílriue againfl
it,
and renew our
affiarance
of
faith
bymedi
--
tating
vpon
the
infinite
truth,
power
and
goodiiefhe
ofGod,
and the mediation
and interceffion ofIefus
Chrift.
Lafflie,
it
is
obie
&led,that
if
we
cannot
fall
from the
grace
ofGod,
then
God
cannot
bee
angriewith
vs
for our
hnnes;
for anger and
loue will
not
fl
together:
but
the
latter
is
falle, and therefore the
formeifo.
I
anfwere,that the confequent
of
the propofitioii
is
falfe;
sea.
for
lone
is
not
oppofed
to anger
but
to hatred. The Lord
in-
4
deed
is
angrie
with
the hones
ofhis faithful,
and
in
his
anger
correaeth
them;
but
this
corre&lion
is
not
fo
much
a
puniíh-
ment
ofthe
finne
pafl,as
a
prevention
ofßnne
to
come.
He
is angrie
with them
as a
louing
father
is
angrie with
his
fon,
not
in
hatred
but
in
loue
not
to hurt
or forfake
them,
butt
that
by
his
41f1
conceived difplealure
he may
reflraine
them
from falling
into the like
finnes,
and
fo
flu retaine them
as
worthie to be beloued.
And thus
haue
I
prooued the certaintie
of
our perfeue-
4.
Sea,6n
rance, and alto anfwered
fuch
obie6lions
as
are
commoiilie
fúggefled by Satan, and
flifly
vrged
by
his
wicked inflru-
ments
thePopifh
rabble againfl this
truth.
And
fo
by
Gods
gracious
of iflance
I
haue finifhed
this treatife containing the
chicle controuerhes betweene Satan and
the true Chriflian.
The which with
all
other
my labours
I
commend to
Gods
bleffing,who
being
the
foie
fountains
ofal
true comfort and
confolation onely
is
able
by
the afàílance
ofhis
holy
fpirit,to
make them
effe
&luall
to the aduancing
of
thofe ends,
for
which
I
haue
intended
them:
desiring
the Chriflian
Reader-
who
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