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p.I11.§:5
0,3
M.
G's
firft
Argument againfl
the
Infallible
7G
Context
in all
the parts
of
it,univerfally correfpondent
unto
it
felfe;
I know
not
how,or
when
or
by what
Rules
we may
have
the
leaft
certainty ,
that
wee have
attaind the knowledge
of the
minde
of
God
in
any one
place
of
Scripture whatever.
s.
3o.
What
he
next
obje
&s
to
himfelfe, namely
that
though there
be no
Condi-
tion
expreffed,
in
the
in
fiances
by
him
produced,yet
there are
inparallell
places,by
which
they are to
be
expounded,
(but
fuch
conditions
as
thefe, are
not
expref
fed in any place ,
that
anfwers
to
that
which we
have
in
hand
)
it being by
hirnfelfe, (as
I
conceive.)
invented
to
turne
us afide
from
the
Confideration
of
the
irrefiftible
efficacy
of
the Argument
from this place, (which
ufe
he
makes
of
it
in
his firft
anfwer given
to
it
)
I owne not
:
and
that
becaufe
I
am fully
affured,
that
in
any promife
whatfoever,that
is
indeed Conditional],
there
is
no
need
to
enquire
out other
Scriptures
of
the like import
,
to
evince
it
fo
to
be
all
and every
of
them
that
are fuch, either in
expreffe
termes,
or
in
the
matter whereof they are, or
in
the
Legali
manner
wherein
they
are given
and
ena&ed, doe plainly and undeniably
hold out
the
Conditions enquired
after.
His threefold Anfwer
to
this
Obje
&ion,
needs not
to
detaine us:Pafiing on
( I
hope)
to
what
is
more ntateriall and weighty.He tells
us
Firft
(Sea.44.
)
that
if
this
be
fo, then
it
mull
be
tryed
out
by
other Scriptures ,
andnot
by
this
:
which
Evafion
I
can allow
our
Author
to
infift
on ,
as
tending
to
fhift
his
hands
of
this
place, which
I
am perfwaded
in
the
Confideration
of
it
,
grew heavy
on
them.
But I
cannot allow
it to
be
a
plea in
this Contefc
,
as
not owning
the
Obje
&ion
which
it
pretends
to
anfwer.
The
two
following Anfwers
,
being
not
an a&uall
doing
of
any
thing,
but
only faire
and large
promi-fes
of
what
Mr
Goodwin
will
doe , about
anfwering
other
Scriptures, and
evincing
the
Conditionallsintimated from
fuch
others,
as
he
fhali
produce;( fome,.doubt-
lefie will
think
thefe promifes no
payment,
efpecially fuch
as
having weighed
Many
formerly tendred
for
reali payment, have found it
too
light)
I
(hall
let
them
lye in Expe&ation
of
their
accomphf
iment.
Ruf%iene
expeïlat
&e.
In
the
meane time,
(
till
Anfwers
come
to
hand)
Mr
Goodwin
proffers
to
4'
3r'
próoveby two
Arguments,
(one
cleare Anfwer
had been more
faire) that
thefe
A&s
of
God,
Calling,
juflification, and
fo
the
reft,have no
inch
Connex-
ion
betweene
them, but that
the'one
of
ofthem
may
be
taken,
and be put
in
execution,and yet not the other,
in
refile&
of
the
fame perfons.
His
firft
Keafon
is
this:
If
the
Apoflle
fhould
frame
this series
or
Chaim
of
Di
-'
vine Aiis,with
an
intent
to
fbew or teach
the uninterruptiblenefe
of it
,
inwhat
cafe, or cafes
foever,
he
fbouid
fight
againji
his
Generali,
and
main
feope
or
de-
fgne
in
that
part
of
the chapter,wbich
lyeth
from v.57.
Which clearely
is
this,
to
encourage
them
to conflancy,
and
Perfeverance
in
fuffering affliaions.For
to
fug-
gefl
any
fach
thing,as
that
being
Called&Juflified,nothing
could hinder themfrom
being
Glor9fled, were to
furnifh
them
with
a
ground,
on
which
to neglect
his
ex-
hortation.,
for
who
will
be
perfwaded
to
fifer
Tribulation
for
the otaining
of
that,
which
theyhavefufcient
*trance
given,
that
they
fhall
obtaine,whether
they
fuff
er filch things or
no:
therefore certainely the
Apo
file
did
not
intend
here
to
teach the certainty
of
Perfeverance
in
thofe
that
are 7uflificd.
Anf.
Anf.
That
this
Argument
is
of
fuch
a
Compofition
as
not to operate
much
in
the
cafe
in
hand,
will eafily
appeare; For
i.
Firft, thofe expreflions
[in
what
Cafe or Cafes
foever]are
foyfted
into the
fence,
and fentence
of
them,
whom
heoppofes;whoaffirme the
Mrs
ofGods
Grace here mentioned
to.
be
effe&ually
and vertuálly
Preventive of
thofe
cafes,
and
of
which
might
poffibly give any Interruption
to
the
Series
of
them.
2.
Secondly,
Whatfoever
is
here pretended
of
the
saamnefcope
of
the
Chap.
-
ter,