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A
Prefacer() the
Reader,
muff take leave
to
fay
,
that
I
was
quickly
of
another mind
,
-with
the reafon
of
which
ch,...nge
of
thoughts,
could
I
once obtaine the
leafure
of
a
few
dayes
or homre:,l
fhonld
quickly
(
Cod
willing ) acquaint
them
who
are
concerned
in Affaires
of
this nature. In
the
meane time
if
the Reader
will
pardon
me
this
digreJon,
having
given him
an
account
of
my
thoughts
con-
cerning the Epitlles
of
/gym
iur,l
[hall
in
a
procedure upon
my firft
intention
bring
forth
force,
Teflimonies from
him
valentt
loans
em
valere
poffunt.
Hefeemes
(
in
the
firft
place
)
to
(peak fufficiently
clearly
,
to the
death
of
Chrift
for
his
Church
for
Believers,
in
a
peculiar manner,which
is
one confiderablebottome,and foundation
of
the
truth
we
plead
for.Epifl:ad
Troll.
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raxias
and againe
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adPhilad: byClrrift (làith he)
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(víprneu6yw
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ri
i,vÑos
a'rua,ïra
eivzivi aysedon-
with
many
the like ex-
prellions.
His
confidencealfo
of
the
Saintsperfeverance
for
whom Cheill thus dyed, he
loth
often
profefs
;
Speaking
of
the faith
of
the Gofpel
he addes,
Tau7a
i
y
s
ú
prune¢oelá
,mssv-
ons,
v m
n&,
dTwig
âw
v
c
Eeeïs
Ptv6
sot
J
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is%,
dr
vrhnePoe
Jtúiv,
ñs
tix7CCZxYar
totoi
liary
^,41;
And againe more clearly and fully
to the
fame
purpofe Epifl
:
ad
Smyrn
:
uinva
yS
J,a«
s
ra-
7nprJa7..
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'1e
Xprsé,Yrsahnt PepnKtrxsu;s
san9Zs.t7c.
And
this
confirmation and eftablifhment
in
believing, he
afcribes
not to their
manly
cone-
derations,but to the
grace
of
Chrift,exclulively to
any
oftheiYr
own ffrength,Epifl:44Smyrn,
lïàvrx
(
faith he
of
him felfe)
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Jl
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7i
vj-
aa.
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cit4,áu7C
pw-
ivo4alCxpr(9-,a'
ycie
tint 7agti7av
;tiv
@,
To the
fame
purpofe and
with
the
fame
confident
perfwafìon he fpeakes,
Epill:adEpdef.
7Pf
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Jlaás
'In7és
Xm
c,9 ÿsushrrdvas
4«2
Zit; 74";
ns'le4,ás
Ala
ns
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eis
oico
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atsep Wames,tÇVapej+omç
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don
Jlà
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';rip
ñpswr
suvpwSsD70'sXites,2
uto,m
nsj
áyiramvevua-
A.
&C.
pry
And
againe in
the
fame Epiffle.
'App,
Ca
ie
Ydsst,
74
Aa/
tJv x}ann.
7a
J
¿},o
itivínrt
wíí(zSpa
Slob'
sivaprdmv émronk
7q,r
iMa advm
H's
tooMa}a,910átoTx34
U.s.
And in
his
Taft
Epiftle,
he
gives us
that
noble Exprel1on
of
his
own affurance. `o
ids
sows
is
ivy
ÿ
a&
añe
Aoe,V
71
J'dtue
dti (;oiv
ç
iJ.ivtvo4
iV
i<aai,iaaiS-(v
got
Nirr,
Ai
eg
evils
w
-sea-
where
we leave
the holy
foule,until
the
fame
God gather
us
to
him,& the
tell
of
the
fpirits
of
juft
men made perfetd.
A
nd this
was
the language
, thefe were
the
Expreffìons
of
this
holy
man which
what they
difcover
of
his
judgment,to the
cafe
under confideration,is left
to
the learned Reader to con-
fider. This
I
am
certaine,our
Adverfaries
have very little
caufe
to boaft
of
the confent
of
the
Primitive Chriftians with them in the
doilrine
of
Apoftacy
,
there being
in
there moft ancient
writers after the Apoftles about the things
of
our
Religion
not the
leaft fhadow
raft
upon
ir,for it's
refrefhment.
Adde
in
the next
place
themoft Antient
of
the Latines,Tertullian,
(
that
great flore-houfe
of
all
manner
of
learning and
knowledge)
faith
he,
2
emadmoditm erbio
arrhabonemlfriritus
reliquie
,
ita
&
á
urbi,
arrhabonem
cares
accepit
,
&
vexit
in
Callon,
pignut
totiosfummo
iliac
redigende.
Tertullian:
de
Refur.
The certaine falvation
of
the whole
myflical
body
ofChrilt,
with whom
he bath
that
communion
,
as
to give them his
Spirit
,
as
he
took their
Alb(
for
be
took
upon
him
fefh and
blood becaufe
the
Children
were
partakers of
the
fame
,)
is
evidently af-
fected
:
which he could not
do,who thought that
any
of
thofe,on
whom he bellowed
his fpi-
tit,
might perifh everlaftingly.
And
againe
de
prafcripti; ad
Floret.
In pugnâ
pugilum&gladiatorum,plernmg,
non
quiafortis cfi,vincit quis,aut quia
non potefl
vinci.
Sed
quoniant ille quivieloo efí, nullir viribou
fuit:adeò
idem
ille
valor
bene
valenti
pofleá compara-
tur,etiam fuperatto
reced
a
non
aliter
herefet
de
quorundam
inftrmitatibus habent,quódvalent, nihil
valences,
f
%n
beni valentemfidem
incurrant.S
olent quidem
illi
mirioner etiam
de
quibufdam
perfoni,
ab
Here
/i
copele
adsftcari in Ruinam;
quaré
ille
velilia
,
fidelifmi,
prndentifmi,&ubtatifmi
in
Eccleftst,ini/lampartem
eranfiernnt
?quid hoc
dicers
non ipfe
fibs
relf
ondet,ne
j
prudentes,neq. ideles,
net
ufitatos
oflimandos quo:
box
[is
potnit
demutare?He
plainly denies them
to
have been belie
-
vers,(that
is
truely,throughly,properly fo)who
fall into
pernicioushereliiesto
theirdeftrudion.
Cypriots
isexprefs
to our
purpofe ; faith
he
,
new
exiflimet
bons
de
Eccle/id pole
difcedere.
triticum
non
rapit ventru
,
nec
arborent
fol
%dú
radicefundatam
procella
fubvertit,
inanes pales
tempellate
jallantur ;invalids
arbores
carbine
%neurone
evertuntur. Ho: execrator
&
percutir
eApo/lolre