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The Triall.
Repentance is not begunne before a sa∣uing faith,* 1.1 because then it should be begun in men before they ha••e any spirituall life in them, for faith is the spirituall life of Christian. Gal. 2.20.
To this Argument I answered in effect, that it prooued not the question, because the proote of ir, out of the Epistle to the Galathians was not to purpose: first, be∣cause the place alleadged is to bee vnder∣stood of the spirituall life of iustification with which wee haue nothing to doe in our question: secondly, because the question is of spirituall life but begunne but the proofe is of spirituall life, perfect in resp••ct of being in all the parts (not de∣grees) of it: thirdly, the question is that faith is so the spirituall life of Christians, that there is not so much as the least mea∣sure of spirituall life begunne in men be∣fore they haue a sauing faith, but the proofe is of no such matter.