the Epftle to theCÇalatiaaa. C(iaP.5 are two graces required vnto-it, helpinggrace, and Exciting grace. Helping grace prcferues and confirmes thefirft and in- itial! repentance. Exciting grace glues the will and the decé{e. And withoutthefe graces the child ofGod,if tae fall,cannotre- 5 pent,and recouer htmfelfc. Thcrtheref'ore arc deceiued, who thinke that they may haue repentance at command, and that they may repent when they will. le may be demanded, why Paul vfeth mild tearmes , and, doth not excommunicate the Galatians An%So long as men/ Eo arc curable,rncanes null be vfed to recouer them.The fhecpe¡ or oxe that goes affray, mull be brought homeagaine, Exod. 23.4. much tnorethy neighbour.Chrifl himfelfebrings home againe theMott fl cepe, and fo muff emery fhephcard. Ezech.1 34.4. Now the Galatians were in all likelihood perfons cura-1 15 blc:and therefore not to be cut off.For theCenfure of Excom- 1 munication pertaincs to them alone , ofwhofc recoueric there) is no hope. Some there be that mifhke the Preachingvfed in thefe dales, bccaufe we vfe not feucritie, and perfonall rcproofes,after the %o mannerofJohn Baptifl: But there men aredecciued.We haue not the like calling that he had, nor like gifts : neither arcwe in the like times. For John the Baptifi was in the very time ofthe change betweenethe old and the newTeftament. Chrifl did not follow him in the fame manner ofteaching, neither doth the Apollle in this place, when he faithof the Galatians inA poflafìe, that he hoped better things ofthem. In the Ian place, the comminationwhich theApoftlevfeth, is to be obfcrued , that troublers of the Church (hall bears their judgement. Hence I gather, 30 r. That God watcheth otter his Church with a fpeciall prouidence. We in England haue found thisby experience: and we nett) be thankfull forit. 2. That the dot-trine of the ApofiIcs isof infalliblecerten- tie : bccaufe theoppugncrsof it are plaguedby the iuft iudge- 3 5 ment ofGod. 3. On the contrarie , our dutie is , topray for the good e- ft-ate of theChurch of God, and for the kingdornes where the , Church is planted, and for the continuanceof the Gape! fpe- 'cially inEngland. For what will all the things we haue doe vs 'good, ifwebe forth of Gods kingdome, and lore our (auks D dd r a i Añd 393 i
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