Ehap.T 7, according to St J o HN. 109 cry with Novatus, Non habco, Domine, quodmihi ignofcaa.; Ihave done nothing that thou fhouldeft forgive me : but with Vega, Vitam amrnam gratis non accipiam. I will not have heaven for no- ti±ing. How much better S..4ugufline, Homo ignofcat, faith he, ut Dear ignofcat. And williamwickam,foundetof.New-Colledge, Aft. BC Mon Who, though he, did many good works, yet he profeffèd that he tufted to jefusChrift alonefor falvation. ' Verfe 3. That they may know thee] To knowGod inthe face ofChrift, is Heaven afore-hand : à nonhabet Chrigum in ho- Buchoker. rofcopo, non habetDeum in medio Culi. By his knowledge'ball my righteous fervarat juftifae many ,. faith God concerning Chrift Ifni. 53. i r, that is,.by. faith ; which infolds affent: of the judge- ment, confent of thewill and affiance or affuranceof the heart.. Papifts place faith in the will only , and exclude knowledge. Nay, Bellarmine affiirmeth that faith: may be better defined,by ignorance ( that motherof devotion) then byknowledge. They digout mens eyes (as they dealt. by Sampfon ) and then mike 1 ort with them : they confine faith to the will, thattheymaydo what they will with the underftanding and the heart ; as the lle1lGeng,tga Priers fend men'on pilgrimage, that theymay lie withtheirwives thewhile: Verfe 4. That thou gff me to do..] . Our Saviour counts- his work a gift :. So fhould we take it for a favour, that he im- ployes us, that we may have any office about him, that we may magnifie him with our bodies, whether by life or death, Phil. T. 19. As an heretike Iam condemned, (faid Mr.Bradford). and. fhall-be' Mt. &Mon. burned, whereofI ask God heartily mercy,.thatl donomore re- ¡wee then I do, having fo great caufe, as to be an infirument , wherein it may pleafe my dear LordGod- andSaviour to fuller. And thegreateft promotion (fail Latymer) that_God giveth.in rbid, a 56s. this world, is, tobe filch Philippians to whom it is given, not only to believe, hut alfo to fufter. Ignatius profeffed hehad rather bea Martyr then a Monarch. jiohn Noyes took upa fagot at the fire, and killed it, faying, $leffed be the time that ever I was borne to tbi:!, t R3 i, .. come to this. The Apoftles rejoyced that they wére.graced fo, to-be difgracedfor Chrift, Verfe 5. With thrglory which I had, &c.] OurSaviour then is no up-ftartGod, and of a later ftanding, as the eirians and . Mahometans would make of him. Mahomet fpeaks very ho- nourably ofChrift except only in two things, lirft, he denied that_
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