mimmiimoismorommais,' C H A P.2. Epigle to the T'he/faloniani. V E R.z3.; taring : z heauy wrath falling vpon fectaries of Anti - chrift : z And potency of Antichrift to entangle in the Snare. The ground of Comfort is their election : forme the comfortable Argument thus,ifyou pleafe;thofe whom God bath chofen to faluation (hall not be feduced by An- tichrift :God bath chofen you to faluation; Ergo,feare not feducement by Antichrift. The major path not onely amplification, but, as I con - ceiue, implicite proofe, from meanes which Ele&ion to faluation puts in all the veffels of honour to prepare them to glory : they are z fanctification of the Spirit,and 2 faith' of Truth. Graces oppofitc to the quality of Antichrifts fe. ¿taries They are all i falfified in their faith : z faithleflè towards Truth : ; fuch as finde pleafure in vnrighteouf- nefFe : and by confcquent not elect ro faluation. Thus you may conceiue the frame : Men fandtified by the Spirit, and belieuirg the Truth are out of gunfhot of feducement by Antichrift : fith he preuailcs onely with men faithlefle and vnfanEtified. But all the elect are fanctified, and belieue the Truth : Ergo, The minor whither of the principali or of the profyllo. gilme, bath proofe ver. t 4. /hey are called to fanctity and faith, &rgo,clected; or ergo, fanclified and faithful': fup. poling the calling to be effectuall. Out of the text in große arife thefe documents. z How careful!a Mini.ter in prudencefhould be to anticipate the fearer and dtfcomforts of gods children, arifing or likely to iffue from mention of things fo frightful'. Speake, to the heart of Iertsfalem : h past difference : comfort the feeble minded: fo is the charge; fuch the practife of the i great Shepheard of the fheepe, of his holy Apofiles and Pro- phets ; efpecially when iudgemcnts fpirituall that coaft vp- on certaine damnation are mentioned :fee Heb.6.9. jo. 39. 2Tim.z.18,i9. z Iohn 5.16,il. Reafons : r this part of the k Right cutting ofthe word; fharing to eucry one his ovine portion. z Neceflity in refpeCt ofGods children,in whole cares the noife of things fo frightfull is as the found of thunder : N partly ',0 f4r 177 h Iude ver,zz. i Luke tz.3z. k z Tim.z,r s, e
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