Of Perfeverance. 2><5 tohold twoRegenerations., 2. The reff fay that the word Regenera- tion (like Generationand Creation) doth not only lignifie the canting of Holinefs in theSoul, but the,Order of doing it, that it be Nowßr.fl done, and not before. As Chrift's railing Lazarus was neither Creation nor Ge- neration. So faythey, Grace indeed is after infufed de novo 3 but not firfl: Therefore it is to be called Repentance, and not Regeneration. So that the change they confefs, but the Nameof Regeneration they rejeft as incongruous. The fixth Crimination. C. " Theygoagainfí the Dollrine ofAuguftine,Profper and Fulgentiuso E. This is the raiheft charge of all the rat. Beyond all controverfie thefe three Fathers, held that all the Eleft perfevered 5 but that Tome were Juftified, Sanaified, Loved God, were infuch a ftate thathad they dyed in, they had been Paved, who yet are not Elch, but fall finally away andperifh, and that none can ordinarily be certainof perfeverance and Salvation , at leaft but strong confirmed Chriftians (which vows thinketh he excepted, but I cannot prove it). If you cannot have leifure to read Auflin himfelf, read but, z. What I have fiid lib. I. 2. What I Paid in my Treatifeof Perfeverance. 3.What Your faith Hift. Pelag. de Perfever. 4. And the very words in the Yan- finifis, Paulus Frye. in his Trias Patron:. In a vifible matter of fah, whichall the worldmay fee , that man who will deny this (as yet many have done, and even Dr. Kendall till BithopVfher in my hearing and at my motion fatisfied him) dothbut tell us howmen otherwife pious abufe Gods Church, by trufting to their Leaders, andmíf-reporting vifible and copious Writings, and founding bittercenfures and invectives upon filch dreams, and yet thinking that all this is the Work of God. The Lord pardon and heal his Servants haflypartial judgingof things and perlons, and the bitternefs, uncharitablenefs, injuries, contentions and divifions that have followed thereupon. Thejuil Extenuation of this lafßControverfie. IN all there things following, the parties are agreed (for the molt confiderable). r. That Adam fell from trueRighteoufnefs and Holinefs, and loft the Spirit. 2. That thereforewe cannot argue fromthe Nature ofHolinefsalone toprove that it cannot be loft. 3. That as theword Poifiblerelateth toman's Power to do evil and omit good, it is not only Poble to fall away, but too Bate : yea, it is not opus potenti c fed Impotenty e, except as Natural Power is exercifed in the meer Al, with Moral Impotency. 4. Yea, without Gods preferving Graces it is not poffible to perfevere. 5. God hath appointed us much duty tobe done that we may not fall away: And among the refl., todifcern, and fear the danger of falling away ; and in that fear todepart fromevil and temptations. i. 6. God bath promiCed us Salvation, on Condition that we perfevere. 7. God oft threatneth the faithful with damnation, ifthey fall away, and defcribeth to us the finandmifery of Apoftates. 8.The
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