' I /. .. ( 20) . I_ compafsof this promife, and make ·this to run irtto the fence of it ; that even all the fins of che Saints • l ' fba.u work for their good, l~t fuch tell us, how, or in what way it's imaginable,that the ~nful du:ayes ,o£ fuch who backflide from God,and never recover to their former life, and vigbur, ~ut 11 ve and dye in a bnguilhing Gate of Soul ; let them tell us, how fuch fins · can pe im:agincd to work for their good: till then, we mufl enter our diffent from this Interpreta– tion. This then is not the fence of the promife, that all fins lhall work together for good. ' .. And,yet ifi't were, it would be but a po0r argu... 1nent, to take the more Iibe'rty to iln, beca·ufe God will turn it to good ; this would be even as rational, as for a man to tear his fletb, break his bones, p1uck out·his eyes, l?urn his houfe, &c. becaufe God 'will _ turn all his fufferings to go'Dd: he is little better than inad,that wou19 not conclude fuch a man out of -h:s ' Wi ts. Others rcftrain it to the evt'fthin!'S that befall the Saints, notthe turpia,;but the trifti;, their fuffqjngs and affiit1:ions; to that vanity,atnd thofe vexations, they arc in bondage under, arid under which with the,who·le Crea_tion, they grean and t ravail in pain, waiting for their rederpption :· 1 of which, the Apofile had ,been tre~cing in the former par-t of the Chapter. I And ycc while they pitch the fence, erpecially on (uch things as thefe:~they grant it may be extended to all other things~ {in only exc:epted ; ad omnes re,s, crea~urll•S eventus' tumJecund~s, tum adverfos : To all things and event'>, whether p,rofperous or affii&· i,ng. So Parceus·, with ())thers. · · , · And thefe I take to have hit the.righc. All heavy - · · th'in~s,
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