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Those the scripture excludeth from the general promise of grace. Thou seest by the places afore rehearsed that though we can not believe in God as undoubtedly as is required / by reason of this our natural sickness / and disease: yet for Christs sake / in the judgment of God / we are accounted as faithful ⟨image 8⟩fydeles for whose sake this natural disease and sickness is pardoned by what name so ever Saint Paul calleth thes natural infirmity / or Original sin in man / And this imperfection or natural sickness taken of Adam / excludeth not the person from the promise of God in Christ / except we transgress the limits / and bounds of this Original sin / by our own folly / and malice / and ether of a contempt / or hate of God's word we fall into sin / and transform our selves into the image of the devil. Then we exclude by this means our selves from the promises and merits of Christ / who only received our infirmities / and Original disease: and not the contempt of him / and his law. farther the promise appertain to such as repent. Therefore Isaiah Capit. 53. said without exception / that the infirmities of all men were cast upon his Blessed shoulders It is our office therefore to see / we exclude not ourselves from the general grace / promised to all men. It is not a Christian mans part to attribute his salvation to his own freewill / with the Pelagian / and extenuate original sin. Nor to make God the author of isle / and our damnation / with the Manichee. Nor yet to say / God hath written fatal Laws as the Stoic and with necessity of destiny / violently pulleth one by the here in to heaven / and thrusteth the other headlong into hell. But ascertain thy self by the scripture / what be the causes of ⟨image 8⟩reprobation / and what of Election. The cause of rejection / or damnation is sin in man / which will not hire / nether receive / the promise of the gospel: or else after he hath received it / by accustomed doing of isle / he fall ether in a contempt of the gospel / will not study to live there after / or else hateth the gospel because it condemneth his ungodly lief. And would there were nether God / not gospel to punish him for doing of isle. This sentence is true how so ever man judge of predestination. God is not the cause of sin / nor would not have man to sinne / Psalm. 5. Non Deus uolens iniquitatem, tu es.