Ofthegouernmentof the Eyes. OfFaith. brance for our.good workes) keepean Ephemerides of thea &ionsofour time : we might ;'. ywithbaùid, [miserflax thegodly beggingthan bread: Ihasiefeene thewicbed f ouri/b, andI be.ßel.iagaine,o,c. Thus wemight come by good experience. Itis laid for her commenda- 'do .i claw fire is themaaares of fooles,for that theteacheth very plainly. Againe,howfoeuer A r?¡ fctlei'aith,Flecrrngisthefenfeóflearning, andofseifedome; yettheeyeisthefessleofcer- r-eepetto " taintw: God laid thcrefore,Iwillgoe domeandfee. Godfaw,faiththe Scrtpture.Thewife men fenfcofees. fay in the Gofpell,Letyr gee to Bethlehem tofee. The Apoftle Thomas is difcommended for mintíe. hetbeleening,nll he rawand felt ; andMary is commended for her quicke beleeuing: But a mancotnpaifed with itifirmitie, mayfay wich GregoriusMagnus. Thomas doubting bath Plus mibi moreprofitedme,thanMarksbeleeuing. If wecould well fee wefhould efchue that for- ca°ossh ubirs li;h gall ioni,How commeth ittopaffe that there daies are evade than theformer times ? 9uìmoredu- whichSalomonfaithis follte to aske. The fight ofTome preléntjudgements are an ama- healMarir. zingwir hoot know ledgeof forceOcheformertimes,and they ofthe former times doubt- foiseichout there: Sothere aretwo fes ofthis, prudence;andcertamtie : The thirdvfe is, Pmdedth that the workers öf Canitie may know that they'are feene, whichthinking they arehot; cerrutudo, fay in their ferret hearts, who teeth'? They thinkethey walkeinaclowde,but thiSwould reíteame them from-much wickedneffe. But there are two forts of the contrarie,the onb of tlieui that will not let themfelues toinquire, what is anaiffe,as chafethat followAbfa- tomami dfbmael. There bee others that fee and will not, as the fouldiers :the gther' ar'e bhnde,thefe blinde themfeluesand the people:There muttbe one Elias tolee; and thattö keepe the wicked in awe. To concludethis withAuoufline,grauntthethis one füplere quelt;which is that,youwould comeand fee,and yetafter ye 'hall examine it,ye7hä1 finde that there iSnot any one greater thing tobe refpeared CHAP. 27. Of bifssith,ofitlfíce, and - uflmen,eindpffeeling. Here is a generali faith, that is common to thegodlyWith the wicked and a particularfaith : the general! faith beleeuing that God is, and that he is litchi a God asbeeas manifetted tobe in hisword : the parti- cular faith more neerely applieth the things fpoken of God to our feluer. This particular, is either of the Lawor of the Gofpell : of the Law as an aaiuefaith, of the Gofpell as a pafliue faith. That I call ahtiue,whích apprehendeth tüat,whích the Lawproanifeth,that is, if we keepeeuery iocofthe Law,and continue in it,wee'hall hue byit. ThatI call apaífiue faith whichapprehendeth that which the Gofpell offereth, that is righteoufneffedone by another,and imputatiue,not done by vs as inherent, as when weefeeke the doing of the Law not within our flues, bistwithout our relues, beleeuing it to bedone byanother, whichwe fo through faith doe attaineas ifwefhouldfulfill the Law inour owne perlons. The aehue faithwas inAdam,and it may be in the diuell and moltwicked ; and yetnone Faithalliue of them having the iuttifyingfaith : for Adamknew that to longasbee kept thewill of aidp0.ue; God,he fhould liue,whoatthat time hadnotpafliue noriuftifying faith, becaufeasit was needlefiè,fo it wasvnknowne to him,noPanne asyet being committed : and therefore no obedience ofany other Ivlediatour for the forgiuenesof finnerequired. The dine's may haue this, tobeleeue that had they not broken the lawof God,they fhould haue hued andnot bane feene damnation : fo may afro the wickedbeleeue; and yet becaufe nei- ther of there doe beleeue, that they (hall be- iuftified before God by the righteoufneffe of another, couering their vnrìghteoufneflè, they haue not the true iuftafying faith. The attiue faith is either of the iultice ofGod , or of his iudgements : ofhis iuftice either in bidding good thinges, or in forbidding euill [hinges : of his judgements either in promifng life to the obedient, of in threátning death to the difobedient. Dd z The
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