The tenth Aphorism.The tenth Aphorisme.

The tenth Aphorism.

The tenth Aphorisme.

AND first this spirit in the elect or chosen¹ causeth that they be touched in deed with the feeling of that their calamity or misery: secondly it createth §1faith in them, that they may be able to §2perform the condition annexed or• k•yt unto the preaching of the gospel. Now this faith² is after a manner two fold. The one, by the which Christ is generally and universally known, (1) to wit by the which we do give assent unto the history of Christ,³ and unto the Prophecies written of him, which faith is also sometimes granted to the very reprobates or outcasts. Another, which is proper and peculiar unto the elect or §1chosen, standeth in this, that we apply §2unto our selves as our own,⁴ Christ universally and indifferently offered to all men, and be every one of us made assured of our election, which in deed afore time from everlasting was hidden in the secrete of God, but was afterward declared unto us, (2) partly by the inward te••monie ⟨image 42⟩or witness of our conscience ••rough the spirit of God being joy••d unto the external or outward preaching: (3) and partly also by the power nd efficacy or virtue of the same spite, which bringeth to this point evee one of the elect or chosen, being set […] liberty from the bondage of sin, hat they begin to will and to do the hinges which are of God.