CHA P.2. Epifle to the The/falonians. V 8 33. that hath called vs, in being zealous of euet y good worke, or as `Paul to Titus, expreflèch it; Cdenyingvngodlinefe, and worldly lugs ; anal, inggodly, iuf/ly,+ foberly in this pre- fent euill world : this they call aóuall holineffe. Begin- nings onely are here vouchfafed ; the f fart fruiter and earne/i of the fpirit. Confumrnation we expel according to. Gods promife in the g new heauens, and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteoufneffe ; its comfortable if wee finde truth, though we want perfection of holineffe. Notes of it thus number, and fo make eleEtion lure. t It goes ouer the whole man, the h whole fpirat , foule, body, fanêltfled throughout, elfe no part truely fanòtifed. As the leprofie deriued from the firft Adam, bath defiled' the whole; fo the purification procured by the fecond Adam, extends to the whole man. The more humble, the more holy : fufpea the gifts that i puff vp, and eaufe to (well; the cxercife, which naught k but vaine glory drawes out. 3 The more fenfible of defects, the more holy; with graces of fanclification grooves vp and encreafech fight, and fente of wants : wherefore the more perfell, the more 1 acknowledft,ino imperfection. q. Its much to in vnderaualue all earthly bleflìngs, to fruits of the fpirit,the king dome of grace and regeneration : who but Gods ípirit,can fo farce eleuate man aboue him- felfe ? the'reft fee f opra. And faith or beliefe of truth: the fecond meane ordered to the atainement of faluation. Nature of ir and what the truth mentioned is, hack beetle before explicated ; thvt it is a meane neceilarie to faluation, Scriptures are pregnant. Mar.i6.t6. Rom.rode. Apoc.zs.8. Ad. r5.9. Whether fumcient, and fo a marke of election if any aske. Re/p. Not, feuered from fan&ification; can that faith face him? Iac.a. Saint Paul intends it not. This rule remember, when gifts common -are made e- vidences of faluation vnderftand them copulariuely,fo that they haue conne. on with other graces. Seer. Iohn 4. 15. and 5.5. Elfe as Hàlenfit explicates, inteheeluall vernies, faith, ° Tir.z,r:, rRom.B.z;. z Corrr 22, g 2 PCr.3.t {. ,wOI-t6 G/l s r T13cC.5,z3. Matth. r r, i t Cor8.r. h Mat.6.1.5. t Phil.3.rz,r3. 'n Phil.; 7,8. P(a1.4.6. Co1oG3 z. a `' : .+tr , T . : R ,+it°e;i,;^,
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