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cloth but !11ew you.the kindes ofPtofelfors)they
were all fuch as profelfed
thefoareoftheLord,that
are there fpoken of;for we fee,they
hrMtghtforth –
fruit,They
receivedt~t
Wordwith
joy.
What
was
the reafon
thefeconaground
was not
perfe!twith
the
Lord
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Becaufe they thcmght him nor to
be~
Buckler
firong enough tobeare off all evilJs, . to
beare offall perfecution. Vvhat
wa~r
the reafon
~ the
third
grou11d
did it notrBecaufethey thought
"there was fomething in
riches;in pleafores,in
di–
vers
lufls,
that they could nor haueinthe
L()ra,
[o
they departed from him: · Onely the
fourth
greund
kept clofe, bec-aufethey did apprehend ·
I
all
tO
be
in the
Lord
that they defired, they did
apprehend him to ··be (hong ·enough to deliver .
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them from all things theyfeared . ..
The third fort ofmen are fuch as,are regcne-·
rate,which yet arefubjechomany
flip~
and fals
to many-turningsa fide: And the cai1fe ofall this
is,thatthey apprehend hot ·Giidtobe
A/1-_(ujfici~
ent.
As
for example, .what was the reafon that
Ahraham
when he went downeinto
Elypt(being
driven thither by reafon ofFamine) faved
him~
felfe with a lye, faying that
Sllrah
·was hi.s
Sifler,
and hot his wife':' but becaufe he thoughtGodwas
notabletokeepe hi.m and defend him. Ifhe had
thought
bin~
to haue beene
A
U
fujficient,
he
would not haue done
it.
What was the reafon ·
thatMtljes
when
God[ent
him on ameifageinto ·
.Egypt,
wasfo backward to performeit1Brtt be-
- caufe he thoughtthatthe
"Lord
was not
All-fojfi:,
cient;For
he hath two reafons why hewould not
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