A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither

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Title: A view of the marginal notes of the popish Testament, translated into English by the English fugitiue papists resiant at Rhemes in France. By George Wither
Author: Wither, George, 1540-1605.
Publication: Printed at London :: By Edm. Bollifant for Thomas Woodcocke,; [1588]
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Luke 8. 13.

The text.

For they vpon the rocke, such as when they heare with ioy receiue the word: and these haue no roots, bicause ∴ for a time they beleeue, and in the time of tentation they reuolt.

The note.

Against the heretikes that say, faith once had cannot be lost, and that he which now hath not faith neuer had.

The answer.

If either you had the feare of God before your eies, or els re∣garded your owne estimation afore men, you would not thus without all cause cauill. We say that those whom God by his owne wil hath begotten, by the word of truth which is an incor∣ruptible séed, to beléeue in the name of his sonne, and so to become the children of God, it is impossible that their faith should bée quite lost, and that he which hath not this faith, neuer yet had it, what is this to the faith here spoken of, which is for a time a ioy∣full, and readie accepting of the doctrine preached, and is there∣fore

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improperlie called beléeuing, because it hath some similitude with true beléeuing. But you make of the Scriptures an exer∣cise to whet your wits, to wrangle and cauill, for such is your re∣uerence towards them.