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And to be short, all the elect of God are thus chosen and called, guided, and governed from their mothers womb, according to the saying of the princely Prophet: Thou art he that takest me from my Mothers womb, thou wast my hope, yet when I hanged upon my Mothers breasts. I have been left unto thee ever since I was borne, thou art my God even from my Mothers womb. And then do they feel most sensibly & lively this their ⟨image 136⟩Election, when temptations and adversities doth a•aile and assault them, in the which conflicts of the flesh, and the spirit, of sin and grace, of light and darkness, they are compelled to cry and call, to sigh and sob before their heavenly Father for the deliverance of this mortal and sinful boy subdued to vanity: and though they do most evidently perceive how they are called from darkness to light, from love of iniquity, to the hatred of the same, from obedience sometime given to Satan and to the lusts of the flesh, to the obedience of the spirit, which fighteth against the flesh, and though, I say, they perceiving this, be not able to quench these raging lusts yet do they mourn and daily lament, calling for the grace of their heavenly father, which lamentations, sighings and sorrowings of their sins, be the sensible feelings and lively signs and tokens of Gods infallible and sure Election. Wherefore whosoever shall feel these secret sighs and mournings, thereby hating ••nne & desiring therefrom to be delivered, considering their own weakness, and ⟨image 136⟩by the fruit, and a good man forth of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth good works, & the evil man evil works. This doth James bid us, to show our faith of our works, and saith, that Abraham did thus utter his faith by his works, and Rahab by her works, and were justified. Where we are compelled with all the godly learned to expound the word justified, declared to be just, or else we do make James contrary to him self, contrary to Moses, whose sentence he in the same place allegeth, contrary to Paul, and the whole course of Scriptures. And thus must all the general sentence of works be understood, that by these works wherein God will have us to walk, we are known to have his spirit to be good trees, & so judged by our fruits:

And to be short, all the electe of God are thus chosen and called, guided, and gouerned from their mothers wombe, according to the sayinge of the princely Prophete: Thou arte hée that takeste mée from my Mothers wombe, thou wast my hope, yet when I hanged vppon my Mothers brestes. I haue bene left vnto thée euer since I was borne, thou art my God euen from my Mothers wombe. And then doe they féele most sensibly & liuely this theyr