240 C ta A Q.3 . An Expof tion vpon the., rfi V u R..io. God hath dealt graciously with vs in there times, b- ring vs with varietyof holy mens labours ; we Ihall:bce vnthankfull,ifwedif pile fo great Grace of God off :red to vs;.yet beware of that delufion,ro thinke good beoks y rnera.no. better then good Sermons. Fearexto defjnfe propbecie,to z Prou.z8.9. to addift your felues to reading; that you Z tome youreare from hearing the Law ;pus. reading, praying, all things, in that cafe become abominable. Defeat ofFaith.Coul d there be any in men fo renow- med ? Some fay, the Apoftle Ipeakes hypothetically, to fupply defeCts of Faith, if there were any: but what needs fuch fuppofrtion ? when euery mans Faith is appa- randy defeCtiue, path wants ro be thpplyed, except per - a i cw.t 3 9. haps we may thinke, Faith is priuiledged abolie a know- ledge? all gifts, &c. to bc in this life made perfeCt,Tetrus Bitten. mergitur 0 meretur audiro--- modica fidei : fi in silo modica, in quo magn4Jit, nefcio. Defects of Faith are of two forts. Firft, ACîuall. Se- condly, Poflible ; and of both kinds are found in the Phil, Matter. Secondly, Meafure of bcleeuing. DefeCts in the matter thus conceiue ; when fbine points of Faith knowne and beleeued,there are others either viiknown, or not heleeued.Thus was the Faith of fome in Corinth defeCfiue in the Matter ; the Article of Refiirreftion be. ing doubtedof,or denyed. And Peter, till farther inftru- b .4îfsso.14. &ion,b remained doubtf4ofthe abrogation ache Law, and breaking downe ofthe partition wall. S econdly, in the Meafure of belecuing:And that in all ; the parts of Faith ; thus nurnbrcd by fame. F;rft,Know ledge. Secondly, Afent. ThirJy,rtAdherence. Firft, Knowledge, Faith, the n110 implicite,the more defeCliue : the more explicire,the more perfeCt.The ledre diftially Articles of Faith are vnderftood, the more im plicire and dcfeftiue is Faith.Faith true for the tùbftance, may bc where the points of Faith are but confusedly vn- .derftood, whiles Afrent is giuen to what is knowne, par- ticularly ;
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