EptJ7eof s. PardoTitres. by hopeof lifeeternali; yea but where is your affurance? oh no, I amnot .63 r Ilure, nor I chinke canany maube, but I haue a good hope; but whence 1 is this hopeof yours ? becaufe IloueGodabove ai,l, I will doeno man any wrong , I will pay euery manhis owne, I (erne God , and goe to Church,am good to the Poore : that a man would verily chinkehe had a Papal inhand, whowill be fatted byhis good deedes , rather chcn one I that euer heard of thedo5trineof free iuflification by faith in the Sonne of God. But thedo&rinewehauein handceacheth, that there is an af- furance, aPeale, inearnefl of faluation, on which a man may atfuredly fettle his inward peace,and his hopes that neuer make him athamed. Yea furcher,that this affurance is no blind perfwafion,norbold prefumption, grounded vponany thing of our ovine; but founded vpon the workeof God in vs,changing vs daily,& renewing the image of God vpon vs:the which good workewherefoeuer it is begunne, (hall beperfeEfedwoo the day of Chrifi. Cold is the comfort which this doctrine can minitler to a number ofmen, Chritlians by profeflion, who neuer knewe thischange in themfelues: the word hathbeene too light to lift them vp toa new life ; but they rotte away in the Came hones and corruptions where- in they were borne, and haue fincc confirmed vpon themfelues, and cannot fay truely , I am changed , or yet am in the [lace of fal- 1 station. Vfe. y. See hence theblethedconditionofmen conuerred and begot- ten to Gods that .wemay neuer refi or be in quiet,vntill we bane attai- ned thisgrace ofconuerfion: for they arealreadie poffctl'ed of their blef- fedneffe and faluation ; which flandeth inpardon of (inne, couering of iiniquity,freedome from thecurfe,iibertie from the raigneof finne;as al- fo in the purchafeof victory ouer finne and death,ofpeace of good con- fcience,of ioy in theholy Ghofi,in the certain fruition of God himfelfe, ' and all thofepleafures which are at his right hand for euermore. The worldling feeth no part of this prefent happineffe, and faluation of the S aints:andsherbet knowingno better, heuener accountechhimfelfe fo bieffed, as when he is drowned in carnali delights, when his come, and wine,and oyle is encreafed vpon hitn,whenhis cup runnrth ouer, when all men flatter him, when his mouth is filled with laughter; and yet in the mein timehis bones arc filled with the finites ofhis youthand age, & are likely to be laid downe together with him in the duff, as Iob 1peaketh. Naymore, cues our felueswho haueour bleffedoeffe inourhands,often fee but a (mall part of it; that it is no meruaile ifotherscan determine a- gaintl ourprefenthappines, when our felues areat fuck demurres in the matter: efpecially when we fee theworld hating vs, the earth expelling vs,bonds &prifons receiuing vs,our country (carte acknowledging vs, R 3 our C"Hnr.3ïq Mtn eonuertea ate happy men, though the woitd roe it not Nor yet them. (dues.
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