<,1;,¡ C y A P.3 . Eni,tlle to the The/falonianr. V B R.2. 227 not raithfuliy or indeed that which they pretend,and fhow for -in faith. For that he would be vnderflood of men in the Church profeffing faith,l make no queflion. r Idle had it bin in the Apofile to minde this people of Pagans and fuch like, that they wanted faith; felfely they knew it: a Nor could their feare and difcon:fort,which in the An- tirhelis he anticipates, arife from any other, then children of the Church profeffing to beleeue, Inf cielitie is not all among ft Pagans : faithlefne fe ïa as much zn the children of the Church : in many profeffing to beleeue ; many ° beleeued in the name of Chrift when they faw his Miracles ; yet did not our Sassiour commit himfelfe vnto them. Durflnot our Sauiour betruft himfelfe with beleeuers ? A thoufand lines he might haue put into their hands, had they jñdeede bcleeued in him. But he,who faw what was in them, difcouered infidelity lurking vnder the viaarof profeffed faith. Want of imperate Aas of faith euidence it: thus num- ber them : i P puritie of heart and life : z q lone ofGod, his ordinances and children : 3 Deuotion. 4 r Confefiì- on. 5 f Workes of Charitie and Mercie,&c. where thefe are not, he bold to fay there is no truth of faith, be vaunts neuer fo confident of e.16rahams vr),riporporla. Saint flugu- ftine wrote comfortably de perfeneantia fanliorum ; there is -a Script bearing title de Apof afsa fanforum. Stuffed with Examples, of many fuppofed to haue reuolted from faith. But it would be enquired, whither thefe who ry rent out from vs, were euer truely of vs. whither thefe, who reuolced from faith, had euer any more then the fhow of faith: in Scripture men beare names of what they Jhow,and are not. ,Qaref. Then what loofe they? Refp. That whichtheyfeenzed to bane : the fhow of faith,pietie,fanctli- ty, they carried in the Church. I fay not all Scriptures, or inftances may thus bee explaned : yet doubtleffe many. But the moré ought we to hielte God for fpecialty of his grace to whom he bath given truely to beleeue in him. For *being, lining, mooing, for fenfe and reafon, for xfood X 2 and Iohti z.23. P Aa.t 59. v Gal 5.6. Cor.4.r3. rIam,z.r4,ts, &c. 7Jfe I. t Iohn 2.19, " Luke 8.18, 2. *Ms 17.a3, & "54.17. > , ibrolW$yw.. p,
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