Cannot that faith faile?
As faith receiueth increase according to that Luk. 15.5. Lord in∣crease our faith. So it may also receiue decrease & may suffer as it
Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.
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- Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.
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"Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69010.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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were a backsliding, so as sometimes by the storms of diuers temp∣tations it may be shaken, obscured, ouerwhelmed and waxe faint, yea euen in the Saints: like as reason in dronken men, and infants is laid a sleepe and buried, as in Dauid when he committed adul∣terie, and in Peter when he thrice denied Christ, but yet it is ne∣uer quite shaken off, or extinguished. For the purpose of our e∣lection is sure, and therefore it is necessarie that faith which fol∣lowes election, should haue the gift of perseuerance to accom∣panie it, for the gift of God (and fath is among them) and the calling of GOD are without repentance. Rom. 11.29. And Christ himselfe did pray vnto his father, surely no lesse for the rest of the elect, that their faith might ne∣uer faile them, then hee prayed for the faith of Peter. Luc. 22.32c
Moreouer Paule Ephes. 1.13.14. saith: That we after we belee∣ued, were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise, and that this spirit is the earnest of our inheritance vntill the redemption of the possession purchased. And Phil. 1.6. What good work God beginneth in his elect, the same he will performe vntill the day of Iesus Christ. And therfore how small and weake soeuer faith be in the elect, yet because the spirit of God is a pledge and seale vnto them of their adop∣tion, the print thereof can neuer bee blotted out of their hearts.
Lastly, seeing that the faith of the elect is opposed to tempo∣rarie faith it followeth therefore that it is perpetuall.