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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19777	Doubtings dovvnfall first, prouing the communitie of the Saints assurance. Secondly, disprouing Bellarmines and his fellowes false allegations and friuolous exceptions against that truth. By Edvvard Dalton, preacher of the Word, &c.	Dalton, Edward.	1624 (1624)	STC 6204; ESTC S115432	25,476	66

of God in Christ This persuasion was assured and infallible for howsoeuer the word here vsed be sometime taken for a probabilitie yet other sometimes for a certaine confidency and confident certainty as may be gathered by the Context and circumstances of the places where we finde it Now the Context is the only touch-stone and rule to know the true interpretation of any word that is vsed diuersly and if this be not duly pondered a man may Toto errare Coelo misse his marke and loose his aime as by sundry instances might be made apparent in words which in diuers places of Scripture are taken in diuers senses if any should as none can at least not any will shew themselues of so weake a iudgement so sleight acquaintance with the Scripture or so quarreling exceptious a disposition Shall we then thinke that the Apostle aiming at the comfort of the Saints at Rome and all other Saints against all enemies whatsoeuer insulting before ouer great and mighty enemies and euen modestly yet truely and grauely boasting that he and others were Conquerours yea more then Conquerours as if the victory had beene already gotten would now finish his consolations with vncertainties and coniectures What coustancy had this beene in an Apostle What comfort to any of Gods people in their perplexities should not he if here in the closeing he be doubtfull haue pulled downe all that heauenly fabricke and spirituall building of consolation which before by his confidence displayed by the banners of the Lords turning all things to the good of those that loue him of conquering and victory euen in being killed he had fairely raised and set vp vpon the pillers of sound arguments either his former boasting was vaine or hee now begun to bethinke himselfe in meeting on the sudden with some bitter assault that he was mistaken or else in this argument he is more confident then he was But surely seeing he was aswell instructed in all truth as strengthened in all tryals from heauen his triumphing was holy and his glorying was soundly grounded And if he had beene so vnexpectedly assailed with such fury as to enforce him to recall himselfe and repent his former affiance without doubt it would haue clearely appeared in the face of his stile here aswell as elsewhere in that euery where as the least Conuersant in his Epistles may perceiue his speciall care is euer to preuent what may be obiected or misconceiued because then we see no change in his countenance nor alteration in his words we cannot beleeue he either had any such cause of feare or occasion to distrust he was before in error or if that will not be yeelded yet without all contradiction the brunt was quickly ouer and the assault did not surprise him or was so farre from the enfeebling of his faith hindering of his hope and daunting of his resolued heart that he is not only a man still of the same minde he was before but as Dauid vpon his good successe against the Lyon and the Beare durst aduenture to encounter with them 1 Sam 17.34 37. from whom all fled So the Apostle hauing well perceiued the greatest violence of an aduerse both might and malice and to his comfort knowing now that being couered with the shield of the Lords protection and sufficiently armed with the loue of God vnto him in Christ neither earthly nor hellish power were able to his eternall hurt to prenaile against him takes a neuer to be daunted courage to him and enters the lists a fresh as a champion standing against all commers and ready vpon the hazard of his soule to buckle with whomsoeuer or whatsoeuer shall call in question either the certaintie of a Saints standing or of the loue of God in Christ vnto him for least he should omit any enemy or opposite he challengeth euery creature so farre is he in his confidence from a doubtfull coniecture Popish Doctors of all haue least reason to interpret this Text of a coniecturall persuasion Of which they Romes Rabbins of all other haue the least reason and lesse Religion to conceiue this place seeing it pleaseth them sometimes to tell vs that the Apostle had this persuasion by speciall Reuelation for such things as the Lord reuealeth in a speciall manner are neuer false but alwaies so certaine Act. 1610. 18.9 10. 11. 27.23 24 25. 34. that a man may safely without any losse or preindice build vpon them yea and hazard the saluation both of body and soule about the truth and infallibilite of them His persuasion then was assured confident certain not concerning the inseparabilitie of the loue of God in Christ towards himself only but towards the S t s at Rome also for with himselfe he includes them shall be able saith he to separate not me but vs equally interresting them with himselfe in the certainty of Gods fauour Now whatsoeuer in this kinde the Saints then at Rome might challenge al euery of the Saints to the Worlds end may as iustly euery man in his proportion and measure claime else why was this reserued in the Church and propounded to euery member of it as of as necessary vse as any other part or portion of sacred Writ In that then the persuasion of the Apostle is certaine and infallible yet as the Sun by the beames is not bounded in the Spheare of that heart where it abideth but reflexeth indifferently vpon the Saints at Rome and interresteth all the members of Christ To be assured of euery grace simply necessary to saluation is common to all gods Saints not proper to any no not Pauls peculiar Proued we may safely collect and conclude that To be assured of euery Grace simply necessary to saluation is common to all Gods Saints not proper to any no not Pauls peculiar for if euery Saint may be assured of one then of euery grace simply necessary to saluation but euery Saint may be assured of his owne inseparabilitie from the loue of God in Christ and therefore it followeth as necessarily as the Sunne is accompanied with light that euery Saint may be assured of euery grace simply necessary to saluation Now because this truth is obscured and this Angelicall persuasion is held by some to be Satanical presumption it will be no lesse profitable then necessary to driue away all the mists of error and misdoubting by drawing the curtaine from before that light which 1. the Text. 2. the Context 3. The confession of the Aduersaries giue vnto this conclusion From the Text we may draw two arguments 1. From the Text. Of what grace soeuer simply necessary to saluation the Apostle Paul as concerning himselfe is assuredly persuaded of the same grace may euery Saint or regenerate Christian as concerning himselfe be assuredly persuaded also But the Apostle Paul is assuredly persuaded of his owne inseparabilitie from the loue of God in Christ and consequently of euery grace simply necessary to saluation