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Obie5Eions
taken
from
tef
imonies
o
f
Scripture, anfirered.7
¡
9
take
the words according to their owne
fenfe
and
meaning,
yet
nothing
inferred by them would follow neceifarilie,
fee-
ing the
fpeech
is
not
atifolute
but
cónditionall,
and
by way
offuppofition,
ifany
doe
Tinnewillinglie,&c.
which
may
rather
be taken
as
an
admonition to
keepe
the
faithfull from falling
into
condemnation,then
as
an
argument
of
their
fall.
CHAP.
XIX.
Other
obieElions
againf
the
doElrine
o
f
pert
uerance,
taken
from
te.flimonies
out
of
the
epiFtles
of
Peter and
the Reue-
lation,an
f
s
Bred.
He eightcene
place
obieetedis
2.Per.1.9.
For
4.Seg.i.
he
that
doth not
thefethings
is
blind
and
cannot
x.Poc.I
9,
ex
fee
farre
off,
and
bathforgotten
that
he
was
pur-
pounded.
from
his old
finnes.
From which
place
they thus
reafon
:
They who
were purged from
their
old
finnes
may
fall
away from
grace,
for
they
may
become
blind,
and
forget that
euer
they
were thus purged:
but
they
who
are
purged
from
their
finnes are
ele& and faithfull;
and
therefore the
ele& and faithfull may
fall
away from the (late
ofgrace. I
anfwere,
firf
},that
thefe
words
haue only in
them
the
force
of
a
fuppofition, namely,
that
if
any profeffing
Chrif}ianity,negle&
all
Chriflian vertucs,they
are
thus
blind
and forgetfull
;
and therefore feeing
nothing
is
pofitiuelie
affirmed,
nothing
can
herehence be
neceffarily
concluded,
but
that wee mulIcarefullytake heed wee doe
not
negle&
thefe holy vertues, feeing this
negligence would
bring
men
into
this
defperate
condition.
Secondly,
I dihinguifh
vpon
the
affumptíon,for menare
faid
to
be purged
from
their
fins
either
really and trucly, when the
blood
of
Chrifh
is
applied
vnto them
by
his
fpirit, and
a
liuely
faith,
or when
as
they
are
only purged
in
their
owne
opinion
and
profellion, or in
the judgement
of
others, who
charitably account thofe
pur-
ged
from
their
finnes,
who
haue receiued the outward pur-
ging
and wafhing
in
baptiffne,
and haue
by
their outward
profeifìon
giuen
their
names
to
Chrift. And
of
this
latter
purging