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If I say the truth why doe you not beleeue me?
CONSIDER, that though the Iewes appeare, and are indeede hugely bla∣me-worthy: yet I feare, if the proceedings of many of vs Christians be well looked into, we shall be found, noe lesse guiltie: They sawe the miracles, yet their malice, at least, made them conceiue that they were done by the power of the Diuell: but we beleeue without all doubt that they
were done in digito Dei. They sawe the in∣nocencie of his life, yet misdoubted hy∣pocrycie. We beleeue him to be that most innocent person, in whose mouth there is noe guile. They were in doubt of his Dei∣tie. We beleeue firmely that he is the true sonne of God.
[Affection.] And yet, my soule, while we confesse all this to be so true, that we dare not misdoubt any part of it, doe not our actions often tymes belye our beleife, and Gods truthes are blaspheamed therby? We beleeue his almightie power, by which he workes wonders, at his pleasure, and doth all that he will in heauen and in earth; and yet being men of litle faith we doubt of his fatherly prouidence, in the tyme of necessitie. We well know the innocencie of his life, and that it ought to be the rule of ours: and yet our liues are so vicious, and deceiptfull, that we quite swarue from that holie rule; we cannot be knowne by it. We willingly professe that Ch. Iesus is our Lord, and our God: and yet we appeare in the eyes of his enemyes, so poo∣re seruants of his, that they cannot beleeue we beleeue him to be such indeede.