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P.111.4;
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g.
No
0bf{rutlions
to
be layd
in
the
way
of
Jùí}ification.
6o
I.
(Firft)
by Mr
Goodwin's
Confeflion here
is
as
yet no great
Advance
made toward the proofe
of
thisAffertion layd downe
in
the Entrance,and
for
the
Confirmation
whereof
this series
and
Concatenation
of
Divine
Graces
is
infifted
on.
Though
men
Love
God,are
Predeftinatedd
and accepted, yet
when
it
comes
to
Calling, they may flop
there
and
perith everlaftingly:
for
many
are
called, but
few
are
chofen;
They are indeed
be
-layd
by
a
Calling,
but
they
may
miffe
the
place
of
its Refidence,
or
refufe
to
accept
of
its
entertainment,
and
paffe
on
to
ruine. But
2.
(Secondly) They
are
fo
called,
as
upon
the
account thereof
to be
Juftified
For
whom he Calls, he
uftifies.
Tea
in
caft
they obay
:
But
this
is
the
Interpretation
of
the
new
Apofele,
not
the
old;
neither bath the
Text any fuch
fuppofition, nor
will
the
Context
beare
it
nor
can
the
defigne
of
the Apoftle
confft
with
it,
nor any more confolation be fqueezedfrom
this place
upon
the
accompt
ofit,
then
of
milk from
a
flint
in
the Rocke offtone. Neither
3.
(Thirdly)
doth
the calling here mentioned hold
any
Analogic
with
that of
the many
that
are called, but not
chofen,
pointed
at
in
the
fecond place
inftanced in; being indeed
the
Efelluall,i calling
of
the
few who
are
chofen.
For
as
our
Saviour
in
thofe
places
ofMathew, mentioned
two
forts
ofPerfons,
flame
that
have
a
generali Call
but
are
not
Chofen: and
others, that
being
Chofen,are therforediftinguithed
from
the former,as
to
their
Vocation;
fo
Paul here
tels yee,
that the
Calling he
infifts
on,
is
the peculiar Call
of
God
according
to his Purpofe
(the
fame
Purpofe intimated by
our
Saviour
)
which being
inkedofGod to the
carrying on and accomplithing
of
that
Pur-.
pofe
of
his,
mutt
be
effe&uall, unleffe
he
through
Mutability
and
,.Impotency
Come
(bort
of
accomplifhing
the
defigne
of
his
Will
and
Wifdome.
Neither
is
this
Salved by
what
followes
that
it
isthe
Intention
of
God, to
make
this
callfufcient
for the end
purpofed:
Yea
this
part
of
the
Wallet
is
molt
filled
with
folly
and
falfhood.
For
as
generall Purpofes
of
giving
meanes
for
an End,with
an intention
to
bring that
end about,
that
may
or
may
not
attaine
it;
are
moft remote from
God,
and being fuppofed, are
deftiatdtive
to
all his
ltoly
and blefled Atributes, and
Perfe&ions,as
hath been
(hewn: So
the thing
it
felfe,
offu
f
fcient
Grace
of
Vocation,
which
is
not
Effethiall,
is
a
groffe
fig-
ment,not
whilft this
world.continues,
by
M.
Goodwin
to
be madeGood:
The
mole
of
his
Arguments being
importunate
fugeftions
of
his
owne
falfe
Hypo
-
th
efes
and Conceptions.
But
he
goes
on,
ry.
The
Apo
file
ádvanceth
towards his
propofed
end,and adds,
thofe whom
he
called,
them
he
alfo yuTtified, or decreed to
fuftific,
in
cafe
the
calledobllreCt him
not
in his
way, or
by
their
unbeliefe render not themfelvess'ncapable
of
:a
f
ifica-
tion.
An
f
That
exception
(in
cafe
they
&Mir:1U
him
not)
is
á Clew,
to
lead
us
into
all
the
corners
ofofthis
Labyrinth,
and
a
key
to
,the
whole
defigne in
hand.
Such
a
fuppofall
it
is,
as
not
only enervates
the
whole Ditcourfe
of
the
Apoftle,
and fruftrats
his
defigne,
but
alto opens
a
dore
for
the
Qlefrioning
of
the
Accomplifhment
of
any
rurpofe,
or
Promifi
of
God what ever; and
in
one word, rete is
the
whole
Efficacy
of the Grace
of
the
Gofpell,
as
a
thing
of
nought.
What
ffrength
is
there
in
the
Ditcourfe and arguing
of
the
Apo
-
itle,
from
the
Purpofe and
infixing Series
of
Gods Grace,
to
proove
that
all
things
fbouldwork
together
far
good to
them
that
Love God,
if
the
whole
iffue
and Event
of
things mentioned
to that end,
depend
not
on
the
efficacy
or
effeduall
Influences
of
thofe
Ades
of
God,
one upon an other,
and
all
upon
tbe:end,theybeing
all
and every one
of
them, Jointly, and
feverally fufpen-
tied upon
the
wills
of
the Perlons
themfelves, concerning whom they are,
(which yet hereis-concealed.andintimated
in
the
leaft?)
How doth it
proove
at
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