C H A P.I. An Expofrtron vponthefecond V E 8.10. San0ificaon is procured,intended to Reprobates ? 4 Not giuen them, faith our Sauiour; the Yworld cannot receiue him. But de his alibi, the homonymies wherewith Aduer- faries haue perplexed the que &ion, are elfewhere noted and explained. Let Gods people make Pure to themfelues their fanaifi- cation, they make lure their z eledlion, calling, glorificati- on. Thus ye may in part difcerne it. r The leffe a earth- ly-minded,the more fan6lified. áyiot quafa áyaEOs or dvev zws yñs z Its comfortable to fee in our felues the b con- nexion of all vertucs gratio us ; to be failing in no gift or fruit of the Spirit, argues our through, our true fanai- fication. 3 EfpecialIy if there things he in vs and abound; yea if they be but growing, that argues life ofgrace in vs. 4 In exercife of them,confiancie and refolution is fpeci- ally comfortable. 5 Moll when the motiue is obedience to the comman- der, a Loue of the Inioyner ; and the end,that the Author in all things may be glorified, Mat.5. t 6. The greater quefhon is,whither to all that beleeue ? for euen a Diuels beleeue; and wee read of E reuolters from faith, whole damnation is as certaine, as if damned alrea- dy' in chaînes ofdar'knefl'e; how then faith the Apoflle,this Glorie belongs to all that beleeue ? Refji. Pardon vs a little, to fee if Schooles may helpe vs in this inquirie. Of faith, as of other venues, they make two kindes. The one Acquifite; the other Infufed. Acqui- fite, fuch as may be wrought out of power of Nature, by meanes atternpered to the vnderflanding fubfifling with- in the Bate of Nature. As when a man afl'ents to Theolo- gicall Truths, moued by humane perfwaïions : as for re. uerence or loue he beares to the Tea,.her; or for miracles wrought to auouch them; or for Reafons and Arguments, potent in the eye of Reafon, to vvorke fuck perfwafion. Infufed, wherein the vnderflanding is eleuated above all its Naturals, and ill uflrated by f diuine power, that it giues credence to things aboue Reafon, leaning only on the
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