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The
Difpropprt:
between
the Texts
compared
by
M.G.
CAP.
111.4:2
6,z7.
ßnd
fuck cafes ,
is
a
plaine
Contradiction;
The
purpofe
is
of
Execution
,
and
67
tò
fay,he purpofed
not the
Execution
ofhis Purpofes,
is
to
fay plainly, he
purpofed and purpofed
not,
or he purpofed not
what
he purpofed.
The
ex-
amples
of
Pharaoh,and
Abraham,
in
the precepts
given
to them,
are proofes
of
the
former:
but
I muff
not
infìft
upon particulars:
This then
is
all
that
here
is
intended. God making
a Law, a Statute
aboút
the
continuance
of
the
Priefthood
in
the
Family
of
Aaron
,
affirmes,
that
then
he
faid
his
Houfe fhould walke before him for
ever,
that
is,
with Approbation
and Acceptation: for
as
to
the right
of
the
Priefthood,
that
Rill
continued
in
the
Houfe ofAaron,whileft it continued
,
notwithftanding the
ejection
Of
Eli
and
his.
Now
whether there
were any conditions
in
the
promife made,
which
is
Mr
Goodroins
fecond
improvement
of
this inflance,mayappearefrosü
the
Confidetation
of
what bath beenfpoken concerning
it.
It
is
called
a Law,
and
Statute,
the
Aé1:
on
that
Account,
what ever
it
were,that God
here points
unto,
is
but
a Morali legislative
A&,
and
not
a
Phyfcall
determining
Aft
of
the
Will
of
God; and
being
a Law
of
Priviledge in
its
own
nature, it
involves
a
condition,
which
the
Afts
of Gods Will vitals and eternall,wherewith this
Law
is
compared,
doe openly
difavow:
Let
us
now
fee
the
paralleli between
the two
places
infifted.
on, for the Ex-
planation
ofthe
former
of
them
,
which
as
it
will
appeare by
the
fequell,
is
the
only
Buckler,
wherewith Mr
Goodwin
defends
his
Hypothefi.r,
from
the
ir-
refiftible
force
of
the. Argument, wherewith he
hath
to
doe.
Firfi,
the
one
fpeakes
of
things
spirituali,
the
other
of
Temporal&
Secondly,
The
one
òf
what God
will
doe, and the other
of
he approves
to be
done,
being
done. Thirdly,The one holds
out
Gods
Decree,and Purpofe
concerning
E-
vents, the other
his
Law,and Statute concerning duties. Fourthly,The one
not
capable
of
interpofing Conditionalls,
without perverting the
whole defigne
of
God
revealed in
that
places
theother direftly
including conditions.
Fifthly,
The
one fpeaking
of
things
thesnfelves5
the other
only
of
the
manner
of
a
thing. Sixtly,
In
theone,
God holds
out what
he will doe for
the
Good
of
his,upon the account
of
the
Efficacy
of
his
Grace ;
In
the
other,
what men
are
to
doe,
if
they will be
approved
of
him; And how one
of
thefe
places
can
be
imagined
to be
fuited for
the illuftration,andinterpretation
ofthe
other,
which agree
neither
in
name,
nor
thing,
word,
nor
deed,
purpofe,
nor
defigne,
muff
be left
to the judgmentsofthofe,
who
defire
to ponder
thefe
things,and
to
weigh them in
the
ballance
of
the
San
&uary.
The
other
inftances in
the
Cafe
ofsaul
and
Paul,
being
more
heterogeneóus
to the
bufineffe in
hand, then
that
of
Eli which
went before, require not any
particular help for the removall
of
them
out of
the
way.
Though they
are
Dead,
as
to
the end
for which
they
are
produced:
I
prefume
no true
Ifraelite
in
the purfuit
of
that
Sheba
in
the Church,the
Apoflacy
ofSaints, will be
retar-
ded
in his
way, by their being
call
before
Mew.
Inbriefe,
neither
the
Connexi-
on
of
obedience, and lured
Rewards,
as
in
the
cafe
ofSaul;.nor
the
necefsity
ofmeanes fubfervient
to
the Accomplifhment
of
purpofes themfelves
alto
.falling
under
that
purpofe
of
hi
in, who intends
the end, and
the fulfilling
of
it,
as
in
the
Cafe
of
Pau!,
are
ofthe
leafs
force
to
perfwade
us,
that
theEter-
nail Immanent A/`isofGods will, which he purfues
by the
Effe&uall
irrefiflible
Ales
of
his
Grace,
fo
to
compaffe
the
end,
which he
bath
from everlafling
de-
terminately
refolved
to
bring about, are fufpended upon imaginary Condi-
tions,
created
in
the
braines
of
men, and
(notwithftanding their Evident
in-
confiftency
with
the
(cope
of
the
Scripture, and defigne
of
God therein)intru-
ded into
fuch
Texts
of
Scripture,
as
on all hands,
(which
will be
evident
in
the
fequell
of
this
Difcourfe
jare
fortified againftthem,
K
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Betides
4
26.