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P.I
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I,ß:;
s,
The
Effeâuall Call
of
Believers,how
Irrefißíble.
72
Elually,
and
not Effea:sally;
A
fuppofall hereof,
is
the ftrength
of
that
Confide-
ration,which yeilded Mr
Goodwin
this
Demonftration.
His eminent way
of
Arguing here
in,
will alfo
be farther
manifeft,
if
you
fhall confider
that
the
very thing,which he
pretends
to
proove,is
that
which he
here ufeth for
the
medium
to
proove
it,not
varied
in
the
leaft.
Si
Pergama
dextra
&c.
But Mr
Goodwin
fore
-faw, (as
it
was eafy
for
him
to
doe) what would
be
excepted
to
this laft Argument,
to wit, that the
Calling
here mentioned effeaually
removesthofe
barrs
of
Wickedneffe
and vnbeliefe,
a
fuppofall
whereof
is
all
the
ftrength
and vigour it
hath:
And in
that
fuppofall
there
is
a plaine
affir-
ming
of
the thing
in Queftion
, and a
bare
contradiétion
to
that,wbich
from
the
place we
proove, and
confirme.
Wherefore
he anfwereth fundry
things.
I.
Firft that
Judas,
Demaa,Simon
Magus,
were
all
called,andyet
layd bars
of
Wickedneffe
andtinbeliefe,whereby
their
Juffiftcation
was obffrnEfed;
and
to
the
reply, that
they were not
fo
Called,
as
thofe mentioned
in
the
Text, not
Called
according
toGodr
Purpofe,
with
that
Calling which
Howes
from
their
Predeflination
to
be conformed
unto
Chrift, with
that
Calling
which
is
held
out
as
an
effeauall meane
to
accomplifh
the End
of
God,
in canting
all
things
to
works together
for
their
good:
and therefore
that
the ftrength
of
this An,
Ewer
lyes
in
the
interpofition
of
his
owne
Hypothefis once
more,&
his
renew-
ed
requefts
for
a
grant
of
the thing
in
queftton, he proceeds
to take
away
this Exception by fundry
croffe Aflertions,
and Interrogations.
Sat.
45. I.
It
bath
not
been
prooved
(faith he)
by
any
man,
nor
I
believe
never
will
be
(Sr
we
live
not
by
your Faith,
)
that
the Calling here fpoken
of
imports any
filch
AEI
or
Worke
of
God, whereby
the called are
irref
fiibly
neceffitated
favingly
to
believe.
If
it
import
no-
filch
thing
as
this, what
hinders
but
that
the perfone
mentioned, might'
have
been
Called
by
that
very
kindofCalling
here
foken
o
f
?
Anf
It
is
known
what Mr
Goodwin
ayms
at
in
that
Exprefon
[irefr.{tibly
necef
fitated
favingly
to
believe]we will
not contend about
words:neitherofthe
two
firft.termes
mentioned,are
either willingly ufed
of
us,or
can
be properly ufed
by
any,
in
reference
to
the
worke
of
ConverGon
or Calling.What
we own in
them,
relates
as
to
the
firft
terme (irrefiftibly)
to
the
Grace
of
GodCalling,
or Converting:
and
in
the latter
(
necefíitatingly)
to the
Event
of
the
Call
it
felfe.
If
by
irreuiftibly,
you intend
the
manner
of
operation
of
that
effe&uall
Grace
ofGod, (not
which conquers in
a
real
ion,which
properly may be
ter-
med
fo:but)
which
really, and therfore
certainely
(for
unumquodq;
,
quod off,
dam
eff,neceffárib
eft) produces its
effe
&,not by forcing
the
Wiil,but
(being
as
intimate
to
it
as
it
felfe) making
it
willing &c. we owne
it.
And
if
by ne-
ceJtating
they underhand
only
the
event
ofthings,that
is,it
is
of
neceffity,as
to
to
the Event that
they
(hall favingly Believe;
who
are
Effe&ually
Called
without the
leaft
ftraitning,
or
neceffitating
their
Wills in their Converlion,
(which
are
Rill
aaed
futably to their native
Liberty)
we
dole
with
that
terme
alto,
and
affirme
that
the Calling
here mentioned imports
fuck an
Aft
ofGods
Grace,
as
whereby they who are Galled,are effeaually and infallibly
brought
favingly
to
believe, and
fo
confequentially,
that- the perfonswhole
Wickedneffe and Unbeliefeabides upon them
,
were never Called with this
Calling here contended
about; They
who are not
Predehinated
a-parte
antè,
nor
Glorified
a
part
p'ofl,
are
not Partakers
of
this
Calling.
I muff
adde,
that
(as yet)I
have
not met
with any proofe
of
Mr Goodwin'slnterpretation,nor a-
ny Exception
again(
ours,
that
is
not
refolved
into
the
fame principle
of
Craving
the thing
in
queftion, producing
the 'thing to
be
prooved,
as
its
owne
Demonhrátion.
And afferting
the
things
prooved
again(
him,
not
to
be