who said O death I will be thy death for while wee liue we liue in him and no man can take our ioy from vs and when we dye we dye in him and then death shall be no more death for then the burthen of sinne the malice of the Deuill and terrour of hell shall cease All things that fill with ioy shall be full within vs as the fellowshippe of Saints and Angels the forgiuenesse of sinnes the Resurrection of the body and life euerlasting c. yea and the God of glory Our eyes shall bee enlightned with a pure faith and we shall think our time wearinesse if then our time were prolonged and be a soiourner in this body in which wee are strangers from the presence of the Lord. And the neerer our time approcheth the gladder wee shall bee of the end of our iourney when our heart shalâ— feele it For when the earthly house of this Tabernacle shal be destroyed wee haue a building giuen of God a house not made with hands but eternall in the heauens where the God of al mercy and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ shall bee before vs for euer There wee shall see the Patriarches of whom wee haue heard so much the Prophets whom we haue loued the Apostles whose society wee wish for where our time shal not be tedious and glory haue no change O happy daies that shall neuer end O blessed inheritance that shall neuer waste There shall be no more sorrow nor crying c. For the first things are past and what haue we here that can please vs Feare of our enemy griefe in pouerty paine in labour care in riches vnstedfaftnesse in friendship enuy in Authority emulation in Honor change in Nobility feare in a Kingdome what but vexation of spirit in all things that is vnder the Sunne So true it is Vanity of vanities and all is but vanity What then can disquiet vs if in the face of Christ Iesus we see our rising againe from the graue Who hath giuen vs inheritance in pleasant places and our portion in a happy lot the dead man feareth no euill he is only bitter to them that haue peace in their riches then we shal be bold to say Surely the Lord wil deliuer mee from the snare of the hunter and from the noisome pestilence I shall not be afraid of the feare of the night nor of the arrow that flyeth by day nor of the pestilence that walketh in the darkenes nor of the plague that destroyeth aâ— noone I haue set the most high to be my refuge and there shal no euâ—ll come neere my tabernacle For among the dead I haue seene Christ and in the graue I haue found the glory of God and therfore do say Let me dye with the righteous and let my latter end be as vnto him for Christ is my life death is my aduantage why then should we not desire to see the louing kindnesse of the Lord which is better then life Yea as the Hart longeth after the water brookes so our soules long to see the Lord. Lord grant wee may haue euen here our conuersation in heauen from thence looking for a Sauiour euen Iesus Christ the righteous who shall change this corruptible body to make it like to his glorious body in that blessed time which shall scatter away all affliction and seale within vs the happy assurance of immortality which shall bee in the presence of the God of Grace Amen FINIS Mr. Hooker Mr. Deering Ioh. 4.14 Rom. 3.5 Rom. 12.6 Math. 17.20 Mar. 12.13 Col. 1.9 2. Pet. 3.18 Can. 4.12 Rom. 10. Act. 13.26 Eph 3.29 2. Cor. 5.20 Rom. 9.33 Psal. 27.8 Zach. 13 9 Mat. 9.23 Ps. 40.7.8 Rom. 8.16 Iohn 5.6 Phil. 1.6 Rom. 9.33 Ioh. 10.28 Ier. 32.40 Phil. 3 12 Rom. 11.29 14 8 8 23. Ps. 23 6 Ier. 31 33 Esa. 25 9 Ioh. 6.54.55 Ioh. 6.35 Rom. 3 34 Rom 4 16 Gal. 3 10 Gal. 5 4 Rom. 4 14 Gal. 3 18 Gal. 5.3 Mat. 5.6 Heb. 12 1 Exo. 12 15 Numb 15 28 Act 16 31 Mat. 8 26 Mat. 15 20 Rom. 4 21 Iohn 6 99 Ioh. 14 29 Mat. 14 28 31 Mat. 8 25 Psal. 31 22 Luke 17 5 Rom. 5 1. 1. Ioh. 5 13 1. Thes. 5 17. 2. Cor. 5.7 Rom. 8 23 2. Sam. 12 13. Psal. 51 1. Heb. 6 18 1. Cor. 2 12 Isa. 9 6 2 Cor. 1 20 a Rom. â— 32 b 1 Iohn 4 13. c Act. 5 31 d Eph. 2.8 e Rom. 5 17. f 2 Tim. 1 7 g Phil. 1 29 h 2 Pet. 1 3 i Rom. 6 23. k Eph. 1 3 3 5. 1. Pet. 1 12 Mat. 26 28 Iob 2 8. Ier. 1 1. 2. Cor. 6 4 Tit. 3 7. Eph. 1.11 Mar. 1 7. Mat. 8 10. Dan. 9 7 Psal. 143 2 Psa. 130 3 Rom. 8 28 Isa. 54 13 Ier. 31 33 Ier. 23 54 Isa. 27 3 Mat. 16 18 Ier. 32 40 Luk. 22 32 Ioh. 17 11 20. 1. Pet. 1 5 Phil. 3 8 1 Cor. 1 30 Rom. 8 21 Rom 4 5 1. Ioh. 3 7 2. Cor. â— 21 Rom. 11 6 Mat. 6. Ioh. 3 17. Reu. 2 22. Rom. 10.13 Isa. 26.16 Iob 33.16.17 1. Cor. 11. Isa. 35.4 Isa. 43.1 Isa. 54 14 Luk. 11 74. Heb. 2.15 Rom. 8 15. 2. Tim. 1.7 Iob 31.23 Eph. 6.10 Isa. 26.12 1. Sam. 2.9 Gen. 18.12 Heb. 11.11 Num. 11.24 Psa. 73 2 â— Hab. 1.2.13 Rom. 10 6. 1. Cor. 3.15 Eph. 2.20 1. Tim. 3.16 Ioh. 1.49 Ioh. 4.24 Act. 4 12. 1. Cor. 3. Rom. 4 23. Is. 2.19 Hos. 10.8 Luk. 23.30 Reue. 6.16 Ps. 51 12. Ioh. 3.16 Ioh. 8 47. Rom. 10 13 Ioh. 1.12 Iam. 1.18 1. Pet. 5.12 1. Ioh. 3.1 Rom. 8 15.16 Ioh. 14 17. Zech. 12.10 Eze. 18.24 Phil. 1 29 Col. 1 11 2. Cor. 1 5 Heb. 13 5 Rom. 8 10 Phi. 2 15 Col. 3 4 Eph. 2 5 1. Ioh. 5 12 1. Ioh. 5 13 Rom. 6 10 Eph. 3.6 Ioh. 14.19 Mat. 28.20 1. Pet. 1.23 1. Ioh. 3 9. Eph. 1 14 Ioh. 4 14 Num. 23 19 Col. 1 23 1 Tim. 2.15 Ioh. 10. 1 Ioh. 3 9 Act. 15.5 Gal. 4 25 28 31. Eph. 1.13 2 Cor. 1.21 22. Cha. 5 5. Ps. 116 16 Ps. 119 125 Ps. 143 2 1 Io. 3 4 15 Act. 16 31 Rom. 1 27 Ps. 84 7 Rom. 8.33 Gal. 3 13 Heb. 8.9 Mat. 1 21 1 Thes. 1 10 Luk. 2 10.11 Is. 9 6 Act. 10.43 1. Ioh. 5.10 Hebr. 3 6 10 22. Rom. 4 18 1. Pet. 2 25 Eph. 3.20 Eph. 1 20 Eph. 2 5. Eze. 36,22 1. Cor. 5 21 Rom. 3.25 Eph. 1 3 1. Cor. 1 30 Rom. 3 25 Rom. 6 6 Eph. 4 24 Tim. 1 2 4 Eph. 5.25 2 Ti. 1 3 5 1. Ioh. 3 9 Psal. 37 24 Ier. 33 16. 2. Cor 12 9 Dan. 9 7 Eph. 1.6 1 Cor. 1 29 Is. 2.11 2 Tim. 1.18 Rom. 7.23 Heb. 12 1 Gal. 5 17 2. Pet. 3 13 Mat. 5 6 Rom. 7 24 Rom. 3.27 2 Cor. 8.12 Mat. 5.26 Ps. 103.4 2. Tim. 4 Is. 53.6 1 Pet. 2.24 Rom. 3 24 Eph. 1 7 Col. 1 14 Ro. 4 6 7 8 Tim. 1 2 14. Gal. 4 5 Luk. 22 10 1. Thes. 5.10 Act. 3.26 Mat. 3 1â— Rom. 8.33 Exo. 28.38 Ps. 143.2 Pro. 24.16 Luk. 22.61 Rom. 5 15 2 Cor. 5 21 Ier. 23 6. Act. 15 9. Gal. 3 14. Rom. 8.2 a Gal. 4 28 b Cha. 3.29 c Heb. 6.17 d 2 Pet. 14. e Gal. 3.14.26 f Eph. 1.13 g Gal. 3.18 h 1. Ti. 1.2 i 2 Pet. 3.13 k 2 Cor. 1.20 l Heb. 11.13 m Gal. 3.14 n Ibid. 22. o Mat. 8.13 p Mat. 21. Ioh. 6 56. Eph. 5 30. Rom. 3 27 Mat. 2 29 Gal. 5.8 Iob 13. Psal. 73. 2 Cor. 12. Iob 2.8 Ier. 11. 2 Cor. 11. Hebr. 13. Psalm 78. Psalm 89. Ioh. 13. Psalm 31. Luk. 22. Hebr 13. Rom. 8. Col. 3.4 Ier. 31. Hebr. 2. Rom. 8. Rom. 8. Heb. 12. Rom. 6. Psal. 103. Psal. 8. Mat. 6. Rom. 5. Rom. 8. Iam. 1. Heb. 12. Phâ—l 4. Prou. 28. Heb. 2. Heb. 2. Mat. 26.56 Mar. 14.33 Luk. 22.44 Psalm 22. 1. Pe 1.2.24 1. Cor. 15. Heb. 4. Hebr 2. Heb. 8.12 Rom. 8. Esay 61.3 Esay 53.5 Psalm 22. Heb. 2. Luk 2. Nah. 1.6 Genes 12. Heb. 2. 2. Cor. 4. Heb. 4. Rom. 7. Can. 3. Hab. 3.16 1. Cor. 11. Ps. 91. c. Psal. 42.1
dead it is dead indeede touching the guilt but it is not yet dead as touching corruption and infection and therfore doth infect the works of the most regenerate for none is perfect as long as he continueth in this life Indeed God hath quickened vs together with Christ and hath raised vs vp together and hath made vs sit together in the heauenly places in Christ Iesus but that is not yet really but in hope yea in our prayers there is much weaknesse and imperfections and distractions yet God respects the truth and not the measure of our faith pardoneth the same for Christs sake who is our high Priest to beare the iniquity of our offerings to make them acceptable before the Lord therfore the godly say Enter not into iudgement with thy seruant O Lord for in thy sight no man liuing shal be iustified The righteous fall seuen times a day and dayly prayeth for forgiuenesse and when by frailty he doth fal God doth in mercy looke vpon him as he did vpon Peter and cause him to rise againe CON. 51. Faith created in our hearts is the onely sufficient supernaturall instrument to apprehend the free couenant of grace in Christ that is Christs righteousnesse for our iustification EXPLA. Faith is the instrument to receiue because it is the hand which wee stretch to heauen to take holde of Christ and to hold him sitting there it is the mouth whereby we eate and drinke Christ because to beleeue is to eate it is the stomack whereby we digest him for he is to be digested by faith it is the foot wherby we enter in possession of the benefits of Christ and possesse so farre as we stretch the same it is the vessell whereinto God putteth the oyle of his mercy it is by faith wee touch him and looke how much faith we bring to receiue so much we draw out of the abundant grace of God Now that whereby we are iustified is the obedience of Christ for by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous and his obedience is his righteousnesse and wee are made the righteousnesse of God in him by apprehending and receiuing the righteousnesse which is in him He is called the Lord our righteousnesse not who maketh vs righteous only but who also himselfe is our righteousnes and how should he be our righteousnes but by his righteousnes therefore in apprehending receiuing Christ by faith we apprehend and receiue the righteousnes of Christ to be our iustification before God which is that merit and obedience of Christ imputed vnto vs. The efficient and finall cause of iustification then is God in Christ Iesus for our saluation the glory of his name the Materiall is the merit obedience of Christ the Formall cause is Gods imputation apprehended and receiued by vs the instrument of this apprehension is faith alone CON. 52. Iustifying faith is euer accompanied with godlinesse and care of godly life EXPLA. As naturall birth draweth not onely guilt but also corruption so faith wherein is our new birth giueth not onely forgiuenesse of sinne to iustification but also sanctification to holinesse and newnesse of life In the iustified man faith onely is the seat and fountaine of spirituall life because as the quickning faculty and power of the liuing soule dwelleth in the heart so Christ who is our life dwelleth in our faith or in our hearts by faith But yet we consist not spiritually of faith onely but many other vertues and graces are required to make vp the perfection of a Christian man to which as to the other members frō the heart so from faith life is imparted and communicated that in them wee may bee aliue to God which are signes and tokens of a iustified man not any causes of iustification but a declaration and testimony of his being formerly iustified by the faith of Iesus Christ. So good workes follow a man being iustified but are not precedent to iustification and nothing that man can doe either by nature or grace concurreth to the act of iustification as any cause but faith alone for our hearts are purified by faith by faith we reeiue the promise of the spirit and the Law of the Spirit of Christ which is in Christ Iesus deliuered vs from the law of sinne and of death Neither is the very act of faith any part of our righteousnesse but onely the merit and obedience of Christ apprehended and receiued by faith but as the heart giueth life to the body not by the substance of it selfe which is but flesh as the rest of the body is but by the vitall and quickning power of the soule that is seated therin and as the hand feedeth the body not as beeing it selfe the food of the body but by receiuing and ministering vnto it meate wherby it is sustained euen so faith iustifieth and giueth life by receiuing Christ to bee our righteousnesse and life in him receiuing forgiuenesse of sinnes inheritance among them that are sanctified vnto eternall life CON. 53. When God promised tied the effect of his promise to the beleeuing of it not to beleeue that in beleeuing whereof wee are partakers of that which we beleeue is to make God a lyar and to frustrate that which he hath promised EXPLA. By faith onely we accept of a promise in all the benefits of God wee are the children of promise heires by promise heires of promise expecting all things by the gracious promise of God by promise to be partakers of the diuine nature the blessing by promise the spirit by promise the inheritance by promise life eternall by promise by promise a new heauen and a new earth wherein righteousnesse dwelleth all which be promises in Christ and are yea and in him amen that is for his sake first made and for his sake to bee performed also Now seeing God hath taught vs that by faith wee obtaine the promises that wee receiue the promise of the spirit by faith that the promise of blessing is giuen by the faith of Iesus Christ to them that beleeue that as we beleeue so it shall be vnto vs that whatsoeuer wee desire when wee pray if we beleeue we shall haue it it shall be accordingly vnto vs. Why should wee then not beleeue such God hath promised Christ to bee our righteousnesse and that by the faith of Iesus Christ that is by beleeuing in him to bee that vnto vs which God hath promised surely in beleeuing him to bee our righteousnesse hee is our righteousnesse and we are made the righteousnesse of God in him CON. 54. The righteousnesse and merit of Christ is spiritually and really ours within and without in spirit and body and soule to sanctifie and cleanse vs vnto God EXPLA. And this is indeede not by receiuing Christs righteousnes really into vs but by hauing righteousnesse imputed vnto vs for his sake for we
righteousnesse And all this is because wee should rest in full assurance of safety without feare or doubt because hee promised to preuent all occasions whence any feare should arise And so he deliuered them out of the hands of their enemies without feare and Christ died that he might deliuer them who for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage and now wee haue not receiued the spirit of bondage to feare any more but the spirit of adoption to cry abba Father for God hath not giuen vs the spirit of feare but of power and of loue and of a sound minde for there is no greater bondage then that feare when we are vncertaine what shall become of vs but he said Feare not little flocke for it is your Fathers pleasure to giue you the Kingdome Now that other commendable feare doth not shake assurance of saluation but the faithfull finding that in him doth gather the greater assurance to himselfe For the punishment of God is fearefull vnto him that dreades Gods iudgements abhorreth wicked courses laboureth in righteousnesse is strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and doe work their saluation with feare and trembling with humility and acknowledgement of their own frailety and neuer to commit themselues to themselues but to him who hath wrought all our workes for vs for by his owne might shall no man be strong Now there is difference betwixt absolute doubting weake assenting and interruption in assent with some feare for the seeds of all impiety land in the corruption of the heart whereby we are assaulted with doubt of the principall poynts of our beleefe the wisedome power iustice mercy of God yet do not wholly relinquish the assent thereof CON. 27. In application of our generall faith to particular occasions wee many times goe halting and lame and stagger somewhat at that whereof our faith should giue vs full assurance by the will of God EXPLA. Thus did Sarah cast doubt of Gods promise touching the hauing of a child who yet is said through faith to haue receiued strength to conceiue when she was past age because she iudged him faithfull that had promised Thus did Moses call in question the power of God as touching prouiding flesh for the people of Israel when God promised so to do So Dauid and Habacuck staggered as touching the prouidence of God and his care of the iust and righteous men So did the Disciples murmure concerning the Godhead of Christ and the hope of redemption by him which before they had imbraced surely when we look vnto our selues in our greatest perfections we are subiect to that amazed distraction as to say Who shall ascend into heauen as if Christ were not ascended to make way for vs and Who shall descend into the deepe as if Christ had not died to deliuer vs from thence we can neuer satisfie our selues how either to escape the one or to attaine the other CON. 28. They are not faithlesse which are weake in assenting to the truth EXPLA. As many as hold the foundation which is precious thogh they hold it but weakly and as it were with a slender thread although they frame many base and vnsutable things vpon it things that cannot abide the triall of fire yet shall they passe the fiery triall and be saued which indeed haue builded themselues vpon the Rocke which is the foundation of the Church CON. 29. The foundation of faith is not onely the generall ground whereupon we rest when wee beleeue the writings of the Prophets and Apostles but also it is the principall thing which is beleeued that is Christ. EXPLA. There is a foundation of our faith God manifested in the flesh iustified in the Spirit and this Thou art the Sonne of the liuing God thou art the King of Israel and that of the inhabitants of Samaria This is Christ the Sauiour of the world Which who directly doth deny doth vtterly rase the very foundation of faith for Christ in the worke of mans saluation is all without our workes for hee is that seede in whom all the Nations of the world shall be blessed and among men there is giuen no other name vnder heauen whereby we must be saued other foundation can no man lay CON. 29. The holy Spirit in the very moment when first he is giuen of God bringeth with him infused vertues proper and peculiar to the Saincts of God EXPLA. There bee two kindes of christian righteousnesse the one without vs which wee haue by imputation the other in vs which consisteth of Faith Hope and Charity as Abraham had not onely the one because the things beleeued was imputed to him for righteousnesse but also the other because he offered vp his son They are both Gods gifts and the first by accepting vs for righteous in Christ and the second by working christian righteousnesse in vs by the spirit of adoption which we haue receiued into our hearts which maketh two kindes of sanctifying righteousnesse habituall and actuall CON. 30. The wicked haue not such faith as that wherewith a Christian man is iustified EXPLA. It is the Spirit of God which worketh faith in the Elect the things which they beleeue are not apprehended onely as true but also as good and that to vs as good they are not apprehended by the wicked as true they are The Christian the more hee increaseth in faith the more his ioy and comfort aboundeth but they the more sure they are of the truth the more they quake and tremble at it for the wicked doe rather wish that they might then thinke that they shall ceasse when they ceasse to liue because they hold it better that death should consume them into nothing then God reuiue them vnto punishment On the contrary to the Elect there is no grief nor torment greater then to feele their perswasion weake in things whereof when they are perswaded they reape such comfort and ioy of the Spirit CON. 31. Faith giueth vs the comfort of saluation because it beleeueth that which the word of God hath deliuered concerning them in whom the signes marks of our Election are found EXPLA. Faith giueth assurance of saluation by the Word of God not only by apprehending the promise of life and saluation but also obseruing such marks and tokens as the Word of God setteth down to discerne them vnto whom this saluation doth appertaine and therefore it doth not onely looke to that which Christ saith that whosoeuer beleeueth shall haue euerlasting life but because Christ also saith hee that is of God heareth Gods word therefore the faithful man delighteth in the word of God beleeueth concerning himselfe that he is of God because the Apostle saith Euery one that calleth on the name of the Lord shall be saued and this also doth the faithfull man vnfaignedly calling on the name of
the Son though it be for a moment hee ceaseth for that moment to haue life but the life of theÌ„ which haue the Sonne of God is euerlasting in the world to come and because as Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more power ouer him So the iustified man being allyed to God in Christ Iesus our Lord doth as necessarily from that time forward alwaies liue as Christ by whoÌ„ he hath life liueth alwayes for as long as that abideth in vs which animates quickneth and giueth life so long wee liue wee know that the cause of our faith abideth in vs for euer If Christ the fountaine of life may flit and leaue his inhabitation where once hee dwelled what shall become of his promise I am with you to the worlds end If the seede of God which containeth Christ may be first conceiued then cast out how doth hee terme it immortall How doth he affirme it abideth if the spirit which is giuen to cherish and preserue the seed of life may be giuen and taken away How is hee the earnest of our inheritance vntill redemption How doth he continue with vs for euer CON. 38. Wee are apt prone and ready to forsake God but God is not as ready to forsake vs. EXPLA. Our mindes are changeable so is not Gods For whoÌ„ God hath iustisied Christ hath assured it is his fathers will to giue them a Kingdome Notwithstanding it shall not be other wise giuen them then if they continue grounded and stablished in the faith and bee not mooued away from the hope of the Gospell if they abide in loue and holinesse Our Sauiour therefore when hee spake of the sheep effectually called and truely gathered into his fold I giue vnto them eternall life and they shall neuer perish neither shall any plucke them out of my hands in promising to saue them he promiseth no doubt to preserue them in that without which there can be no saluation as also from that whereby it is irreuokeably lost Euery error indeed in things appertaining to God is repugnant to faith euery fearefull cogitation vnto hope vnto loue euery stragling inordinate desire vnto holinesse euery blemish wherby either the inward thoghts of our mindes or outward actions of our liues are stained which by earnest repentance mercy doth restore to life againe in them whom sin had made the children of death But infidelity extreame despaire hatred of God and all goodnesse obduration in sin c. doth not stand where there is the least sparke of faith hope loue and sanctity euen as cold in the coldest degree cannot be where heate in the highest degree is found It is true no man liueth that sinnes not Yet the man that is borne of God hath a promise that the seed in him shal abide which seede is a sure preseruatiue against obstinate heresie and pining discouragement of the heart for greater and cleerer assurance we cannot haue of any thing then this that from such sins foresaid God shall preserue the righteous as the apple of his eye for euer for if the iustified erre as hee may and neuer come to vnderstand his errour God doth saue him through generall repeÌ„tance but if he fall into herisie hee calleth him at one time or other by actuall repentance but from infidelity which is an inward direct deniall of the foundation hee preserueth him by speciall prouidence for euer CON. 39. We must put a difference betwixt them that erre of ignorance retaining neuerthelesse a minde desirous to bee instructed in truth and them which after the truth is laid open persist in the stubborne defence of their blindnesse EXPLA. Heriticall defenders froward and stiste-necked teachers of circumcision the Apostle calleth dogs silly men who were seduced to thinke they thought the truth he pittied hee tooke vp in his armes hee louingly embraceth hee kisseth and with more then Fatherly tendernesse doth so temper and qualisie his speech he vseth toward theÌ„ that a man cannot easily discerne whether did most abound the loue which hee bare to their godly affection or the griefe which the danger of their opinion bred him Their opinion was dangerous Was not theirs also who thought the Kingdome of Christ was earthly Was not theirs who thought the Gospell only should bee preached vnto the Iewes What more opposite to prophetical doctrine coÌ„cerning the coÌ„ming of Christ theÌ„ the one concerning the catholike church then the other Yet beeing admonished found the mercy of God effectuall in conuerting them from their error So was there difference betwixt Pharisies And the Pharisies which beleeued Of the Galathians which were yet weak he saith You know God or rather are knowne of God how turne you againe to impotent rudâ—ments The Law engendreth seruants they which are gotten by the Gospell are free we are not children of the seruant but of the free woman and will ye bee vnder the Law Yet he saith if yee be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing as many as are iustified by the Law are fallen from grace and why Because they know that in grace and in Christ their saluation dothly and so their hearts shall tremble and quake within them he knoweth mans imbecillity he hath a feeling of our blindnesse and weakenesse how great it is CON. 40 Our saluation is not vpon vncertainty if wee doe thus or thus but God â—ramed vs to bee and to doe whatsoeuer belongeth to the attainement thereof EXPLA. The Spirit as he is the reuealer of the mystery of our election vnto vs so is he the earnest of the effect of Gods predestination by the gift whereof God giueth vnto vs the certaine assurance of all the rest that remaineth to be giuen for he is the pledge of the inheritance promised as a hand-writing or bond of assurance of euerlasting saluatioÌ„ making vs the temple and house of God being the worker of holinesse in vs that hee may bring our bodies to eternity and so the immortality of the Resurrection whilest in himselfe he accustomes them to bee tempered with heauenly vertue to bee accompanied with the diuine eternity of the holy Ghost And this earnest God neuer taketh backe againe because it is so the earnest of our inheritance vntill the redemption of the possession as that it is an earnest also that in the meane time God stablishes vs in Christ and that he hath created vs for this namely to clothe vs with immortality and eternall life for God giuing earnest for the assurance of the end doth thereby vndertake against all lets and impediments that should hinder the atchieuing of that that is earnested thereby and therefore the things present which thou hast attained already doe assure vnto thee those things that are yet to come CON. 41. If man depend vpon himselfe he hath iust cause to feare and doubt his own perseuerance EXPLA. The faithfull doe say with the