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P.111.55:42,
43.
z
Tim:
zdg,Farther
vindicated.
82
therein. Evident
it
was
that
many
of
them did not
Believe
the
Gofpell;
as
ïe:
vident,
that
the Promife
of
God
was
made peculiarly
to them,
to
Abraham
and
his Seed:
hence
no
(mall peplexity arofe
, about
the
Reconciliation
of
there things; many perplexed
thoughts
enfuing on this
kerning
Contradi&i-
on
If
the
Gofpell be indeed
the
way
of
God, what
is
become
of
his
faithful
-
neffe
in
his
promifes
to
Abraham
and
his Seed,
they
reje&ing
it
?
If
the Pro
-
mifes
be
true
and
fiable,
what
¡hall we
fay
to
the
Doétrire
of
the
Gofpell,
which
they
generally difbelieve and
rejeEt ?
In this place
the
Apoflle
only re-
jeEtsthe inference,
that
the
faithfulneflè
of
God muff
fall,
and
beofnone
ef-
feEt,
becaufe the
Jewes beleived
not;
whereof
he gives
a full
account after-
wards,
when he exprefly, takes up
the
obje&ion, and handles it at large,
Cap
9,1-0,1I.
The
fumure
of
the
Anfwer he
there
gives,as
a
Defenfative
of
the
faithfullnef
e
of
Gód,with
a
non obflante
to
the
Infidelity
of
fume
of
theJewes,'
amounts
to
no more,nor
leffe,
then what
inhereargued & by us afferted,viz.
that
notwìthf}anding this
(their
incredulity and Reje&ion
ofthe
Gofpell)
the
Foundation
of
God
flandeth fore;
God
knoweth
who
are
his:
that
the
Pro-
mile,
his
Faithfullneffe wherein,
(came under
Debate,)
was
not made to all
the
jaws,
but
to
them
that
were Chofen according
to
his
Purpofe,
as
he ex-
pt'eI1y
difputes
it
at
large beyond all
poffibility
ofContradi
&ion
Cap.
sr.
As
Shall
afterwards be further argued,
and
hath
in
part
been
already difcove-
red.I
verily believe never did any man produce
a
Teflimony more
to
the dif-
advantage
of
his
owne
caufe
both
in
general], and in
particular, then this
is
to the
Caufe
Mr
G000dwin
hath
in
hand.
0.
42.
Neither doth
he advance one ftep
further
in
the
confirmation
of
the
fence
impofed on
the
Apoflles
words,
by comparing them with
the
words
of
the
fame
Apoftle
v.13.
of
the
fame
Chapter,
if
we
Believe
not, yet
he
continuer
Faithfull,he
cannot
deny
himfelf: wherein againe,
contrary
to
the whole drift
of
Mr Goodwin Difcourfe,
the
Faithfullneffe
of
God,
in
the
Accomplifhment
of
his
Promifes,
is
afferted
to
be wholy independent upon
any Qualification
whatever,
in
them,
to
whom thofe Promifesare made.
Though
we
are un-
der
Sufferings,
Temptations, and
Tryalls,
very apt
tobe raft
downe from
our
Elope
of
the great Things
that
God hath
prepared
for us,
and
Promifed
to
us, yet
his
Purpofe
(hall
fund
however,and our
uubeliefe
¡hall
not
in
the
leaf]
caufe
him
to
withdraw, or not
to
goe
through with
his
ingagernent
to
the
utmoft:
The
faithfullneffe
of
his
owne
nature requireth
it at
his
hand:
He
cannot
deny
himfelfe.
4.43
What
remainessea.
r
Wherein
he labours further.to give
f}rength unto,or
rather
more largely
to
Explicate
What
he formerly
afferted,
is
built
upon a
critical]
Confideration
of
the word
OstAxior,
which
(without
any one example
produced
from any approoved
Author,)
we muff believe
to
fignifie
a
bond,
or
inflrument
of
fecurity given
between men
by
the
way
of
Contrail.
Andwhat
then,
fuppofe
it doe
?
Why
then contrary
to the
whole
fcope
ofthe
place,
and confiant
fignification
oftheword
in
the Scripture, it mull be interpreted
according
to
the
Analogy
of
that
fence.
Why
fo
?
Doth
it remove
any
diffi-
culty on
the other
hand
Doth
it more fuite the Obje
&ion
for
its
remobeall,
whereunto
it
is
given,
that
we fhould warpe from
the
firft,
Genuine,
Native
ufuall
fignification
of
theword, to
that
which
is
Exotick and
Metaphoricall
?
Yea
but
we
are enforced
to
embrace
this fence, becaufe
that
here
is
a
feale
fet
to
this
Foundation,
and
men
ufe
not
to
fet
Sealer
to
the foundation
of
a Muff.
And
is
it
required that
Allufions Should
hold
in
all prticulars and
Circum
fiances, even
in
fuch 'as
wherein
their
teaching property
doth not
confifi
?-
The
tearmes
of
Foundation,
&
Sealing
are
both
figurative:
neither
will either
of
them abfolutely
be
fquared
to thofe
things
in
Nature, wherein they have
their