06 Of Perfeverance. B. God will not make our sin to be our Duty, (infenfe conjunl{o). i. But God will make Duty on fuppofition that Sin maketh it neceffary. Ifyou fin, God will make farrow_ and confeffion your Duty, which would elfe be none. 2. Yea more, the fame Act may be a Duty and a Sin infeveral refpeas. And fomay fear ofHell be. A. "Stay there ! Do you not then make God the Author of Sin? For " if he caufe the At! as a Duty , when it is caufed it will prove a Sin " too. B. You miftake: TwoCaufes may caufe twoModes and Relations of the fame Aft, and one not at all caufe that which the other caufeth. Godcaufeth every Aft in genere au, which is finful, andyet caufeth not the deficiency or exorbitancy of it : As the Rider maketh theHorde go, but not to go lamely. God knowing our uncertaintyof our own Eleltion and Sincerity, may make it our Duty, by a wife and careful fear toavoidour own danger : And yet thatfear maynot only come alto from Come ignorance and unbelief in our felves, but have finful degrees, and fohave that in it whichGod is not the mireof. The frond Crimination. s One would think that A. "Their Dottrine tendeth to theindulgenceof allfin : * For ifa man the Doftrine afferting " cannotfallaway however he live, he maygive up himfelf to lewd carnality, the lofs of Juftincate cc by mortal fin were andfay, Icannotfall away. ftriâer than the Calvi- B. This is the fame fhamelefs felf-contradiaing Accufation , and Hefts: But judge by the Plains Doltrine, who needs no other Anfwer. As if you laid, [ Ifa man cannot fall away, teach that a man in mor- he may fall away.] Togive up himfelf to carnality is tofall away 5 And talyfin or unconverted you fay that he may do this, becaufe he cannot. The Doarine of ñ'ficadogRxim ie`pJx. y , That Godwill certainly keepthe godly from turn- out AdverCaries is deli. exad.' d. a 9, leti. 4, ing from him to an ungodly fle(hly life : And howdoth this conduce to F e4s. Ad meritum con- grue rare reguiritier peels- Ungodline('s. Ham elfe fimplieiter Deo A. "The conceit offafety willmake them carelefs. grater par' puteas B. Not if they conceive that their fafety and their carefulnels are ropier percatem mortale fit rninera Dei ; nihilo- equally decreed. The bad and ignorant will abufe any thing. But I morra atlas fzdei & ale- qui ex fide procedunc le- am per(waded that very many live the more holily for this belief: tandem fe , grati fiat, 1. Becaufe as Prophecies conduce to theirown accomplifl ment, in that gesantam ¡efficir, nt jeltifi- what men believe will certainly come to pals, theyall promote, and cationem de congrue mere- at opera namq; [rater- will not oppofe: So it is in part in this cafe. 2. And when they be- na charotatis, Heb.rp. & mifereeoe den Bore that Godwill have it be, it greatly animateth their endeavours by fiat etferri- ficia, quibas Deem per hope, and taketh off their difcouragements. 3. And when they find mortale percatem amipem that Godpath in hisDecree conjoyned their care and labour to the end, promeremur f perfeverance, accipere e eb t joli. r. and hath nomore decreed their > an th that they (hall care- ceefcodmer, 8tc. So that fully avoid fin and temptations, it maketh them fear that they are not Gods reconciled is bound to Elea when they find thefe finsofEleaion to bedoubtful, and fo re- be to, and > Y g > P Juftifiea wicked enemy, ferveth them fromprefumption and fecurity. for an Alms or for Con- feflion : rs not this an eafie cure of enmity ? _. but the promsa is made only rxteris pathos, to' true Believers, already The third W jolt, but needing a par. ¡' rimination, ocular remiflicn. A. " Their Dollrine is uncomfortable 5 in two refpeas, r. In that it al- " lowcth no man to before of his prefentJuilifrcation, l'ardanandAdoption, "who
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