ThisismyBelo1?ed. 393 I not afhamed to fuffer bonds for hiS fake. Though I sE R'.xvni the world thought him a meane perfo~, I will not be fcorned out of myFaith and Religionby !hallow .empty perfons, that know not what i Chrifl: and Religion meaneth . No, I know whom · I have heleeved) he is ahle to keep that that I have committed to him againftthat day.Lct us therefore: . be able to jufbfie from a jadicious apprehenfton 1 fweet oivine truths. You fee what jufiifications there are ofthe ChurchofGod:Wherefore fhould the Heathen foy, where is now their God ? al.'ld Pfalme 42.10. Oh it went toDavids heart,when they fit id where is now their GGd -: what is become of his God when he was left in trouble, as the Church here, and what deth !he anfwer ~ cloth he let it goe with a quefiion ~ No fayes heJ t>f•l·r 1 ~·~· our God is in Heaven and hath done whatfoever he pleafed. I And this jufiific<1tion of Religion you may The jufl~ficati- 1 I knOWby thiS figne, it is With the difertionOf all on of re/igiOU(\ d ·r. r. c R 1· · h fc h enJeavo•rs ul hC0Unes opponte ro e tgton w at oever, c with di(ertion· that jufiifies the tmth, he efteemes meanly of of oppofite other cour[es and difcourfes. Therefore in the &Qurfes. next vcr!e the Church ·vilifies the Idols, our God is in Heaven, and doth whatfoever he pleafeth : the Idols are filver and gola,the wmke of ,, mens hands) they have eyes and fee not, cares 1 and heare not. And the more we jufiifie Chrill:, j rhe more we will be againll: Antichri11: and his Religion, we may know theowningof the one truth by the vilifying the other. Lee us labour therefore to grow to fuch a convincing know- . ledge
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