2. To condemne those, that from this doctrine of the assurance of election, take occasion to cast off all care of piety: these are they that the Apostle speaks of, chapter 3 verse 16. _who being unlearned and unstable, wrest the Scriptures unto their owne destruction_. Although the election of God be sure in it selfe, yet no man is sure of it without the practice of piety. Then againe the certainty of election that is in God, makes this certaine, that no man shall ever be saved by vertue of election, unlesse there be in him the practise of piety: such words or thoughts are certaine tokens of a profane soule, which neither cares for election nor salvation, nor hath any feare of God. For whereas it is alike certaine with God, how long every one of us shall live in this world, yet there is none that cares not for his life, or useth not the meanes to live, unlesse he be quite mad: so from the certainty of election none concludes after such a manner, unlesse he be altogether profane. 3. To exhort us, to stirre up our selves more and more to do these things, whereby we shall receive so great fruit and benefit. Doctrine 5. _By labouring to do these things we are fore-armed against the dangers of all temptations._ _If ye do these things, ye shall never fall._ _Reason_ 1. Because we are never led into temptation without our owne fault, and consequently without the neglect of this duty. 2. We are never led into temptation, unlesse we have first tempted God, by forsaking those meanes, whereby we might be upheld and preserved. 3. God can and will defend those that flye unto him, and that seeke him in his wayes. Hither tend those frequent promises, such as are _Psalms 15._ _the last words_, and _Psalms 16.8._ Doctrine 6. _The more we are freed from the fals of sinne, the more are we assured of our calling and election._ This is gathered from the opposition, which is made betwixt the assurance of our calling and our fals. _Reason._ The reason is taken from the contrariety; for like as the more the darknesse is dispelled, the more the light increaseth, and on the contrary; so is it in these things. Doctrine 7. _Look what progresse we make in grace and vertue, so much progresse do we make in glory and happinesse._ This is gathered from the connexion of the eleventh verse with the former, the force whereof consists in this, that by adding vertue unto faith, and knowledge unto vertue, we shall adde also something unto that participation, which we have in the kingdome of God: where it is to be observed that the same word is used in this eleventh verse, where he speakes of glory, that was used, verse 5. where he spake of vertue; there it was ♦ἐπιχορηγήσατε, here ἐπιχορηγηθήσεται. ♦ “ἐπιχωρηγήσατε” replaced with “ἐπιχορηγήσατε” and “ἐπιχωρηγηθήσετω” replaced with “ἐπιχορηγηθήσεται”