( 303 ) kind . And yet I am deeply blamed for laying , there is more ne; ceffary to continue our Justification, and confummate it , then to begin it : and that it is not Abfolutely perfeft at firft. missarat 6. Nother common Afrertion of our Divines is, that, If 4 true Believer fhouldfall togrofs Rebellion , and fall away from Grace, andfrom fincere Obedience to Chrif ,he fhouldceale to be ?tined: Ifhe fhould lofe his SanElification,he fhould with it lofe hie aflification : And that it ought to be our care and daily timely slut wefall not away, and that on this motive, left we lofe Gods fa. vor andbe condemned. I know none but grofs Antinomians deny this. And I blame them not to hold it, when God faith , Ifye lsve after theflefb, ye !hall dye : and if any draw back, my foul !hall have no pleafure ire &c. And will not this beyond all queftion,warrant us to fay, that fincere obedience is a Conditionof the continuance or not lofing our Juftification ? This is but the fame thing in other wordswhich they fay thernfelves : and yet this is my great and haynous offence 1 I hope thefe fober menwill not fay , that be- caufe it (hall never come to pats that the juftified than lofe their juifification,it is therefore a fuppofition not to be put: yet I meet with fuch freaks in fome Antinomians. The certainty of theend, fuppofeth the certainty of the means : and thofe means muft be intended for that end : and therefore we may well fuppofe that theendwould not beobtained without the means : and he that will not put fuch fuppofitions, is like to ufe the means but negli- gently. He that will not fay, If I fhould not forbear fin, or per- form duty, I fhould mils of heaven, would fcarce ufe them well'; I think : And he that fcrupleth, to think or fay, IfChrift had not Redeemed me, if God hadnot called me, and juftified me, I had perifhed for ever. I thinkwill be likely to perifh, or is at leaf} very unthankful.: and yet thefe fuppofitions are as impoffible, as our falling away. It is impoilible we fhould not be redeemed and called now it,is paft : and it was as certain before, that what God' had purpofed muff come to pafs ; and impoffible that any thing fhould fruftrate his decrees. Yet who knows not that fuch fup- pofitions are not only lawful but neceffary to the right,' a aauating
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