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to the Argument
in
hand,Removed.
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That
the
cafe
here
propofed, and
pretended
to
be
parallel/
to that un-
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derour
Confideration
,isafiClitiom thing,
a fanned Concatenation
of
famed
.
Decrees
of
God, being
neither
in
any
one
place delivered
in
the
Scripture,
nor to
be
colle&ed
from
any,
or
all
the
Texts
in
the
Bible:
which courfe
of
proceeding, if
it
may
be
Argumentative in
facred
Truths, it
will be
an eafie
and
facile
taske
to
overthrowthe
molt Eminent
and
cfearely
delivered Heads
of
Do
&rive
in
the whole
$coke of
God.
2.
That
it
is
a
cafe furrnifed
by
him
fuitable
to
his
owne
Hypothe-
fes,
neither
true
in
its
felfe,
nor any
way
Analogous
to that
wherewith
'tis
yoked, being indeed
a
new way and
tone
of
begging
the thing
in
queftion.
For
infrance;
It
fuppofeth
(without the
leaft
Attempt
of
proofe)
(s.)
Conditi-
onall Decrees,or
a
disjun&ive
intendment
of
Events
in
God;
it
!hall
come
to
paffe,
or otherwife.
(2.)
A
middlefcience
conditionall,as the foundation
of
thofe disjun
&ive
Decrees;
with
(3.)
A
futurition
of
things,
Antecedent
to
any
determining
A&
of
the Will
of
God;
and
(q..)
Apofíibilityoffruftrating
(as
to Event)
the
Defignes
and
purpofes
of
God;
and
(5.) That
all
medium
s
of
the Accoplifhmentof
any
thing
,
are conditions
of
Gods intentions,
as
to
the end
he aymes
at;
&
(6.),That
God appoints aferies
of
mediums
for
the
compaf
îng
of
an
End, and
defignes
them
thereunto, without
any
determi-
nate
Refolution
to
bring about
that
End;
&
(7.)That
the
A
&s
ofGods Grace
in
their Concatenation mentioned
in this place
of
Rom. 8.
are feverally
Conditionall, becaufe he
bath invented or
faigned force Decrees
of
God
which
he
fayes
are fo;
All
which, with the
inferences from
them,
Mr
Goodwin
knowes
will
not advance
his
Reafonings
at
all,
as
to our Underftandings,
be-
ing
fully
perfwaded,
that
they
are
all
Abominations
of
no
leffe
bate
alloy,
then the
Errour
it
felfe,
in
whole defence
and Patronage they are produ-
ced.
.
To
our
Argument then before
mentioned,
prooving an equall
indiffólvea
blenefe in
all
the
linkes
of
the
Chaine
of
Divine Graces,drawne
forth and
infifted
on,
from the equal! dependance
of
the
defigne &
Purpofe
of
God on
the
mutual! dependance
of
each
of
them
on
the other
,
for the
fullfiling
of
that
Purpofe
of
his,
and obtaining the End,
which he
profef(es himfelfe
to
intend:
this
is
the fumme
of
Mr Goodwin Anfwer,
If
ICan invent aferies
of
Decrees,
and
a
Concatenation
of
Divine Alls,
though
indeed there
be
no
filch
thing, neither can
Igive
any colour to
it
without laying downe,
and taking
for
granted
many
falfe and
abfurd fuppofalls;
and
though
it
be
not
o
f
the
fame
nature
with
that
here propofed
by
the
Apo
file,nor any where held out
in
the Scripture
for
any fuch End &
Purpofe
as
this
is;
neither can I
affigne
any abfolute
de-
terminate
end
in this Series
of
mine,whofe Accomplfhment
God
ingages
him-
felfe
to
bring about;
(as
the
Cafe (lands in
the
place
of
Scripture under
Con=
federation)
then
it
is
meet
and equitable,
that
laying
afide all
inforcements
from
the
Text,
Context, Nature
ofGod, the
thing treated on,
all compelling
us
to
dole
with another
fence
and
Interpretation,
that
we
regulate
the
minde
of
the
Holy Ghoft herein,
to the Rule,proportion,
and
Analogie
of
the
cafe
as
formerly
propofed.
This being
the
fumme
of
that,
which
Mr
Goodwin
Calls
his Anfwer,
made naked I prefume
to
its
lhame, valeat
quantum valere
pate
V..
I
!hall
onlyadde
that
(i.)
when Mr
Goodwin
!hall
make good
that
order
and
series
of
Decrees, here by him mentioned,from
the scripture,orwith
folid
Reafon
from
the nature
of
the things
themfelves, fuitably
to
the Properties
of
him,
whofe
they are;
And
(2.)
Proove
that
any
eternall
Decree
of
God
either
as
to
its
primitive
ena&ing,
or
temporall
Execution,
is
fufpended
on
any
thing, not
only really contingent in
it
(elfe
and
its ówne
nature,
in
re-
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