C H A P.4. Eplflle to the T heffadonisns. V B R. 7. 29! on. ° The Lord will not hold him guiltlef e, that taleth his o Exod.2o.' Name invaine. How might we hope to haue freefl fins ingracious meafuee reflrained e if this little notice of the A pofhe might be as Frontiers betweene our eyes ; that where mans iufliçe faileth, God With his vengeance makes PIP/. VER s. y.8. For God bath not called vs vnto vncleanneKe, but vnto ho- lineffe. He therefore that defpi/Ëth, delpifeth not man, but god, who bath a fogiuen vnto vs his ho l) Spirit. He words conraine w reafops for the general] ex horrarit it to he fludy of fan- y, Firf, as 1013 , hr tic e, from the Au- thor, as or her , , rom the end of our cal- ling. Seco,.d v, from the fouler & of the finne, in cafe we be found negligent ; the contempt rea- ched) rnroGod, l hirdly, from the rich bounty ofGod, in giuing !;is Spirit veto vs. God loath notcalled vs unto vnc Leanne fe, eke. Th e Chri an calling, Warrants to no man vncleanne f fe, leads vnto hobies. Therefore it is the vfuallhile, P the holy calling : becaufe it leads ro holineffe, and, though it find vs not holy, yet it makes vs fo. And if there be any rearme therein, fee- ruing to tend vnto licence, yet fo it is mollified and ex- plained, that vncleanneffe is hill excluded : fee Ga1.5.13 And fee howeuery thing in it fauours of holineffe: the 9Culleris holy : the meanesand rinflrument, holy ;the Spirit, the immediate worker, the fountain of all holinefe. So that they are imputations no lehre then blafphe- mous, charged vpon the profeflion and calling of Gods people; that it fhould teach orapproue vncharirab:enes, coueroufnetre,licentious loofenetTe, &c. Why hath Sa- V z, tan p s Tint.r.9 q t Pee,t.rs rloh>>.r7r7 Yfc. e
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