AP .5. Gpíf le to theTheffa1eJians. VE .1 ,2. 39.1 portment,morelowly? d greeting with loweft curtefie da, Sans.rs s. tine meaneft amougft the people. There things conGde- red;lhew how necetrary it is, for men defiring to keepe faith and good confcience, to labour for exa tuetfe and perfection ofknovs ledge. Defe(ts in this kinde,there are two cfpecially,amongli i our people. The firfì is, grotr'e ignorance c the fecund, confuted and indillin(t knowledge. Maruelloufly merciful! bath God beene to vs in theft , yfe. laf} times , Coifing the light of his glorious Go/fellto/hine two vs ; and, for the time, we might haue beene teachers But how apparent isir,cuen where themeanesof know- ledge haue beene molt plentiful!, wee are many, filch as need robe inftrueted;lhall 1 fay in rudiments of Chrilli an faith ? yea, furely in the very language of Scripture. Irafomuch that to this day, the tames of Redemption cation, hellification, are orange to our people ; and wee feeme Barbarians, when we mention thefe'things in their. cares. Oh brethren,confider,I befeech you, and remem- ber who laid It is thee condemnation of the world, that 1011.3.19. Light is come into the world, but men loue darkne ffe rather than light, and how the fame lefue fliall one day f come in f Thef. r. 8. flaming fire,to render vengeance to there that !¿now 'not God, and difobey t be G hell. A fecund fault.is that I termed, confined and indifii : knowledge. . Thus conceiue it; when men in grotte vnder Band fcmethings of faith, and pra£tice; but necefIary particulars theretobclonging,conceiue not. Chrift died for vs, is a principle in all mens mouths. Example. What Chrift is in his Natures, Perron, Offices, Benefits to vs;how few are'thcy that vnderlland i Thatfaith.iutii.', fies ;what Libertine amongft vs profeiTeth not to know i, how faith iuflifiés, or what.: it is to iuftifie, feeming Do (tors arnongft them cortìprehrnd not,: Who maruels, i fuch nouices become a prey to feun Pap.fts ? I And of theft'circumftances of the Text dlins'farre.; fen we
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