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The
Text
perverted
by
M.
G'$
Expofition.
CA
rill.
4:29.
A
&s
of
Gods Grace, whereby
his
Purpofes,
and
Decrees are accomplifhed,
69
doe
confift in
the
effe&uall
removeall
of
the
Interveniences
pretended,
that
fo
the
end aimed
at
in
the
Unchangeable Counfell
of
God,
may
(fuitably
to
the
determination ofhis Soveragin,
Omnipotent,
Infinite,
Wife
Will)
be accorn-
plííhed. Neither
doth
it
in
the
leaft appeare,
that
any fuch calling by
the
Word
and
Spirit
,
as
may leave
the Perlons
fo
called in
their
unbelief;
(they being
fo
called in
the
purfuit
of
this Purpofe
ofGod,
to
give
them
Faith,
and make
them conformable
to
Chrift)
may be allowed
place,
or
Roome
in
the
Haven
of
this
Text:The
likemay be
faid
of
ju
jtifi'cation,where-
in men
doe not
Perfevere. Yea thefe
two
fuppofalls
are
only
notan
open beg-
ing
of
the thing
in
Conteft,but
a
flat defying
of
the
Apoftle
as
to the validity
of
his
Demonftration,
That
all things
(hall
worke together
8tc.
Notwithftanding then any thing
that
hath
been obje&ed
to the contrary,
the
Foundation
of
God
mentioned
in
this place
of
scripture flandsfirme,
and
his
Eternall
Purpofe
of
fafegarding
the
saints
in
the Love
of
Chriff
,
untill
he
bring
them to the
injoyment
of
himfelfe in
Glory,
Rands
cleare from
the
leaftfbaddow
of
change,
or
fufpenfion
upon any
certaine
Conditionalls,
which
are
confidently
(but
not
fo
much
as
fpecioufly)
obtruded
upon it.
The
next
thing undertaken
by
Mr
Goodwin,
is
to
vindicate the forementio-
4.29.
ned
Glo(fesfrom
fuch
oppofitions,
as
arife againft them from
the
Context,
and
words themfelves,
with the
de
gne
of
the Holy Ghoft therein: Thefe
things
doth
He
find his
Expofition obnoxious unto.
The
expofition which
He
pretends
to
give
no ftrength
unto,but
what
is
forraigne on all Confiderations
whatfoever
of
words and things,
to
the
place
it
(elfe:
This
,
it
feemes,
is
to
prophefy according
to
the
Analogie
of
Faith.
xom.I2.
.
Ftrft then Seei.44:To
the ObjeEtion,thatthofe who are
Called
are
all() Ju_
flified,and
(hall
be
Glorified,according
to
the
Tenor of
the (irks of
the
A&s
of
the
Grace
of
God
here layd
down,he Anfwereth,
That
where
either the
one,
or
the other
of
thefe
Affertions,
be
fo
or no,
it
muff
be
judged
of
by
other Scriptures;
Certain
it
is
by
what bath bin argued
concerning
the
frequent
tefage
of
the Scripture
in
point
of
E.x'preffion,that
it
cannot
be
concluded
or determined
by
theScriptiure
in
hand.The
Sum
of
this
Anfwer
amounts
to
thus much: Although
the
fence
op-
pofed be cleare
in
the
Letter,
and
Expreffìon
of
this place
of
Scripture,
in
the
Grammaticall
fence, and
ufe
of
the
words;though
it
flowes
from
the whole
Context,and Anfwers
(alone) the
defigne,and
fcope
of
the
place, which gives
not the
leaft
Countenance
to
the
interpofing
of
any fuch Conditionalls,as
are
framed,
to
force
itto
fpeake
contrary
to
what
&IAA
T
'
sgax
)
it holds
forth:
yet the
mind
of
God
in
the words,
is
not
from thefe things
to be
concluded
on;
but other
fignifications
and
fences,
not
of
any
word here
ufed,
not from
the
laying downe
of
the
fame
Doetrine
in
other
places with
the
Analogie
of
the
Faith thereof,
not
from
the
propofing
of
any defigne
füitable
to
this
here
exprefl'ed,
but
places
of
Scripture agreeing
with
this, neither
in Name,
nor
Thing,Expre(íion,
nor
Defigne,
Word,
norMatter,
muff be found
out
in
the
fence
and meaning
of
this place, and
befrom
them
concluded, and our
inter-
pretation
of
this place accordingly regulated.Nobis
non
beet
6c.
neither
hath
M.Goodwin
then produced
any
place
of
Seri
pture,norcan
he parallel
to
this
fo
much,as
in
exprefiìq,though
treating
of
any
other
fubieet
or
matter,tharwill
endure to have any
fuch
fence
tyed
to it,
as
that
which he
violently impofeth
on
this
place
of
the
Apofile.
And
of
the
Senfe,and Mind
of
God
in
this place,
may
not
fafely
be
received and clofed withall
,
from
the
proper and ordinary
fignification
of
the
word
(
which
is
always
attended unto
without the leaft
difpute,-unleffe
the
fubje&
matter
of
any
place,
with the Context enforces
to
the
fenfe left ufuall and
naturali)
with
the
'eleare
defigne
and
fcope
of
the
K
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Context