Epe file leofS. Paul to TitMc. CHAP.I.2 . heart humbledwith the touch for Panne, and yet poffeffed with true peace in God, grounded on that promife which is made to the poore in fpirit: 29 for ofthefe two it is ingendred. It procreateth andpreferueth heaHeny mindedneffe,lifting vp the heart to wait,and with for their mafterscorn - ming, fo as that day neuer commeth vnawares vpon them, as it doth on thofe who are yet in the night, and in darkenes. It fuffereth not a man to walke in the wayes ofinne, either in hope of mercie, or prefuming of repentance; buthe that harhtht hopepurgettohimfelfe , and auoideththe 6 7 c.Ioh.;.;. corruptions that are in theworld, through lu (l. It vpholdeh the heart in g obedience anddutie, both by exciting the will,and the diligent hand to Voluneacem vndertake and performe, and Ilrengthening the whole man in tempta- [pc' facit. Lions, dangers, and di(lra&ions, vnto all perfeuerance in the wayes of God. So that althoughwhen pleafure or profit is tobe tali off,or when croffes and lofiesbetide thehypocrite for his obedience, all his hope peri- lbeth, andvanifheth as the dewe before the funne ; yet this hope inaketh not a/hamed; but comforteth is this life, and crowneth in the life to come, Let bliudneffe therefore make fooles bold, whole property it is to be- leeue curry thing, yet the wifedome of the wife will caufe him to vnder- P.o r4 ts. fiand his way, and not Puffer him to nourifh for hope , either a doubtfull vigil,ncium defire offomething, which with Balaam , he may naturally with; or a dreame in the flumber ofconfcience, deluding with a perfwafion oflife, that heatt which is as dead as a (lone within him. fomnia.Placo. WhichGod, who cannot lie, bath promifedbeforet heworld began.] The pronoune relatiue(which,) fome , from whom I would noteaf ly depart, refuterather to the word [truth] then [ eternalllife ] becaufe of that in the 3. ver. But bath madehùword manifejt : and thence indeede might our Apoftle iufily haue defended his doctrine from fufpirion of noueltie, beeing the fame which was looked for, euen in the firft ages oftheworld,and nowmade more manifef: by which,occafion were of- fered to ouerthrowe fundsy new broached aoueleies of the Popifh do- 6trine , notdauouringofancient antiquitie. But I rather encline to that other confiruc,Rion; referring the relatiuevnto lifeeterna/l, immediately going before : which as we haue heard it to be expected byhope , fo is it here laid to be promife!oy God : for in the promife hath hope his fiedfalineffe. And this promife is dcfcribed , a. from the ffabiliuie of it, in that the author of it is Godwho cannot he. 2. from the antiquitieof it, gathered from the circumfianceoftime , before the world begannt: both which confederations mofl eíîeetually commend this promife of God, and alto confirme this our hope which leaneth vpon it. Qefl. What kindeof promife is this here mentioned? Ant: The word,
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