Epif/le ofS. Paul to T'itus CxAr.3.4. hold vs from taking our fellow feruants by the throat; for hauingbeetle forgteen ten thoufand talents, we may well forgiue an hundred pence. Thus (hall we manifeP our felues tobe the children of our heavenly fa- ther, by refembling that goodnes ofhis whichworketh in the winning and faulingof tanners; and in (hewingmercie, and remitting ofmanifold debts. The fecondpoint in the efficient of our faluation , noreth the time when God faued vs, namely, when hisbountifulneffe, and loue appea- red, and fhined out in the Golpel; then came this bleffed faluation veto vs, when God the inexhauR fountaine of all goodnes by the tidings of the Gofpell, {hewed that hewas become our friend in Iefus Chrill:whë this cleare funnefhìne anddayfpring began to thine in our hearts, then beganne our faluation. Dear. a. Then are we faued when we are fanE}ified and changed by the word and fpirit : for as no fooner are we in the fir1 Adam , but wee are in the Rare ofdarnnatió,fo no fooner are we its the fecond Adam,but we are in the Rate of faluatsoìí.The Scriptures areplaine to this purpofe: Rom. I.17. The righreoufneffe of faith is reuealed by the Gofpel, and by this faith the iu{I man liaeth: which placebath relation as well veto the life etern:ll, as this temporarie : I.Cor.z.9.I o. The great things which eyebath not feene, &c. the fpirit reueileth veto vs: yea more , the fpirit maketh vs know e the things that are giuenv¡of God. Nowe what bee thefe things that are giúen vs, but grace,iuR.ficarion,and faluation,rea- ched out vnto vs in the miniferic of the Golpel, and receiued of vs by faith and hope, the which allo are wrought and confirmed by the fame tneanes.But more expreffe is the AooRle Iohn, We are now thefooner ofGod: and, Ephef. 2.7. by graceje arefaued through faith: and, lob. I o. 'giro to them lrfe eternall: he faith not, I will glue, but noteth a continu- ed aEl begun in the p:efent. The eurdenceofthis truth appearethallo in the contrarie: for ifthe wicLedbe condemnedalreadie, as the Scriptures affirme, namely, both in thecounfell of God, and z. the word of God which pronounceth the fentence, their owne confciences which fpeak bitter things againR them, 4. prefent execution ofinward and outward plagues which are the beginningsofhell:then it will nec be hard to con- ceiue that on thecontrarie the beiceuers are faued alreadie, and paffed from death vnto life, both in the counfell of God, and in the Gofpel, whichpronounceth the fentence of abfolution, in their owne confci- ences, which hauepeace with God through Iefus Chrif; and in refpea of the beginningsof lifeeternal), which make them happy men while they are yet enea abfent fl out the Lord. Obiaf. If it be here laid, that we cannotbe Paid to be faued , fo long R r I as 629 Then are we fa. ued when we are lanftified. Ioh.;.a8.
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