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IV, False applying of true promises, is the last cause of false peace. And when a man hath Gods Spirit within, and Gods hand and promise (as he thinketh) for his estate, now he thinketh all safe. This did the Jews, they said, We have Abraham to our father: and so reputed themselves safe▪ God having made them promise: I will be a God of thee, and of thy seed. But here is a difference between a child of Gods application of them and a wicked mans: the first applieth them so to him, as that he liveth upon them, and nothing but them: and to whom doth the dug belong,¹ but to the child that liveth upon it? The other liveth upon his lusts and creatures, and yet catcheth hold on the promise.

IV, False applying of true promises, is the last cause of false peace. And when a man hath Gods Spirit within, and Gods hand and promise (as he thinketh) for his estate, now he thinketh all safe. This did the Jews, they said, We have Abraham to our father: and so reputed themselves safe▪ God having made them promise: I will be a God of thee, and of thy seed. But here is a difference between a child of Gods application of them and a wicked mans: the first applyeth them so to him, as that he liveth upon them, and nothing but them: and to whom doth the dug belong,¹ but to the child that liveth upon it? The other liveth upon his lusts and creatures, and yet catcheth hold on the promise.

1. 1Psal. 38▪ 19.

By these four means is begot a bastard false peace.