A treatise of faith : wherein methodically is handled, the nature of true, saving, justifying faith, in opposition unto counterfeit .. . r purpofes, and cannot obtaine what they fomuch aimed at,and trauel for,they gxowJic^ewith Ahab,and penfifiejheytumble on their beds, and willeateno breads I -King.! pine away to nothing. Men for worldly things arefometimes feene to goe and runne mad, to loofe theirwits;yea,to hang and kill themfelues. Saul killed him-felfeynot forrowing for his finne, but left thePhiliftims V 2 fliould 292 Tertulllan Ap-cap 46. \ Mtns afhue Obedience, C h a p . 3 2\
A treatise of faith : wherein methodically is handled, the nature of true, saving, justifying faith, in opposition unto counterfeit .. . r purpofes, and cannot obtaine what they fomuch aimed at,and trauel for,they gxowJic^ewith Ahab,and penfifiejheytumble on their beds, and willeateno breads I -King.! pine away to nothing. Men for worldly things arefometimes feene to goe and runne mad, to loofe theirwits;yea,to hang and kill themfelues. Saul killed him-felfeynot forrowing for his finne, but left thePhiliftims V 2 fliould 292 Tertulllan Ap-cap 46. \ Mtns afhue Obedience, C h a p . 3 2\ fhould mockehim, or infult ouerhim. So zsfchitophel,becaufe hiscounfellwasno better regarded and fallowed. Itis reported o&Lycurgus, the Law-giuer among the Lace-demonians ,that hee would haue handed or flamedhimfelfe,becaufe fomewhat againfl his credit they had mended hisLowes. Some haue been fo impatient of difgrace,as theyhaue been ready to hang themielues/or not playing theirparts well in a Play. Thus worldly and carnal! forrowbeing the onely iorrow that all hypocrites can haue, isfound to caufe death euery manner of Chap. XXXIL Oflbefeuen mndanu ongodlyforrowyin the heart cfeuerietrueconuert and vnfamed bcleeuer* Odly forrow,being the forrow of trueconucrts, and ofvnfained beleeuers,that on the other fide caufeth life, forit caufeth true repentance, which iscalled repentance vnto hfe\ and it cau-feth not a fingle and bare kind of repentance alone, but a repentancerichly furnifhed with fuch graces as are raoft fit, andfound to bee moft meetetobeeher attendants; and theyare reckoned vpby theApoftle to bee feuen in number,which wee know makes a perfect number, all whichare brought forth, and fet euery one in her place andorder, as fo many maidens of honour, to giue their at-tendance,^ accompany and wake vpon their Lady and{JWiftrisjtvue and fauing repentance; which among ma-ny other vcrtues taketh place before them,and fitteth as agreat Princeffc, and chiefe Lady of ho
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