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Some experience of this we may see among us: Courtiers will be professors, and Scholars of ripe wits will be religious, if that Courtiers may become Counsellors, and Scholars may be preferred to the chiefest places; but if promotion come not, then is their profession forsaken, and their religion laid aside: and yet that is not all, for either they wax profane in their lives, or heretical in their opinions. Do the children of God love on this manner? No, the holy Ghost which they have received in effectual manner, doth shed the seed of love in their hearts, ¹and doth work in them a special liking of his goodness, and of his holiness, ²so that they love him not for his blessing alone, but chiefly for himself: as the natural child loveth his father naturally, and though his father beat him, yet he beareth it, and still loveth him. ³They have poured and infused into them a godly nature, so that they do freely love God their father: and though he afflict them, or cross them in their desires, yet they love him, and in love perform their obedience unto him continually. ⁴Therefore Job saith, Though he kill me, yet will I trust in him. And this is the third mark or rule whereby to prove and try our selves.

Some experience of this wee may see among vs: Courtiers will be professors, and Schollers of ripe wits will be religious, if that Courtiers may become Counsellors, and Schollers may bee preferred to the chiefest places; but if promotion come not, then is their profession forsaken, and their religion laid aside: and yet that is not all, for either they waxe prophane in their liues, or hereticall in their opinions. Doe the children of God loue on this manner? No, the holy Ghost which they haue receiued in effectuall manner, doth shed the seede of loue in their hearts, ¹and doth worke in them a speciall liking of his goodnesse, and of his holinesse, ²