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C.
I11.4
:46.Chr.preferv.
Believ.depends
not
on
their
preferv.
themfelves.
86
fented unto
us,
Heb.
2.18.
For
in
that
he
himfelfe
hath
faltered,
being tempted,
heis able
tofuccour
them,that
are tempted,and
(ch.
4. 15, 16.
)
We
have 'not
an
High-Priefl, which cannot
be
touched
with
the
feeling
of
our
infirmities,
but
was
in all
poynts tempted
like unto us,
yet
without
fnne.
Ili.
40.
I
I,
12.
It
is
faid
of
him,
he
fliallfeed
his
flocklike
a
fheapheard,
he
gathers the Lambswith
his
Armes,
and carries
them
in
his
bofome,
and
pall
gently lead them
that
are with
young.
And be quarrells with thofe fheapheards,who manifeff not
a
care and tender-
neffe
like
his,
towards
his
flock.
Ez
ec:
34.4
The
difeafed have
ye
not lïrength_
ned, neither,haveyee
healed
that
which wasficke, neither
have)ee
bound
up
that
which
was
broken,
neither haveyee
brought
again that
which was
driven
away,
neither
haveye
fought that
which was loll,
all which he takes upon
himfelfe to
performe.
v.
I.5,16.Or
is
it
want
of
?
All
Power is
given
to him
in
Hea-
ven
and
Earth.
Mat.28.8.
All things
are delivered to him
of
his
Father. Mat.
I
r.
27.
He
is able to
fave
to
the utmofl them
that
come
to God
by
him. Heb.7.25,
If
he wants neither Care,
nor
Tendernefle, Wifdome, nor Watchfullneffe,
Love, nor Ability,
Will,
nor Faithfullneffe, how
comes
it
to
paffe
that
they
mifcarry, and
fall
away
into
ruine, whom he hath
undertaken
to
keepe
?
Daviddurft
fight with a
Lyon,
and
a
Beare
in
the
defence
of
his Lambs;
and
7acob
indured.Heat and Cold, upon the account
of
Faithfullneffe: And
fhall
we
think
that
the Shepheard ofifrael,from whofebeing
fo,the
Pfalmifi
con-
cludes hefliall want
nothing, (Pfa
23.1.) who did not only
fight for
his
Flock,
but
layed downe
his Life
for them,will
be
leffe
carefull
of
his
Fathers
Sheepe,
his
owne
Sheepe,
which
are required alto
at
his
hand, for
his
Father knower
them,
and
Galles
them
all
by name
?
4.46.
Yea
but(faiesMr
Goodwin)it
may
be
thus,in
cafe
themfel
ves
fball
not
comport
with
Chrift
in
his
Ad
of
Preferving them,
with
their
care
and
diligence
inprefer
-
ving
themfelves.
that
is,
Chrift
will
fürely keepe
them,
in
cafe
they keepe
themfelves.
Alas
!
poore
Sheepe
of
God
!
If
this were
the
cafe
ofthe
Flocks
ofthe
Sonnes
of
men, how quickly would they be
utterly deftroyed?
Doth
the
verieft
Hierling in
the
World
deale thus with
his Sheepe?
keepe them,in
cafe they keepe them
felves
?
Nay
to
what end
is
his
keeping,
if
they keepe
themfelves? Chrift compares himfelfe
to
the Good Shepheard,which feeketh
out,
and fetcheth
a
wandring
Sheepe
from
the
Wilderneffe, laying
him on
his
[boulders, and bringing it home
to
his
Fold. How did
that
poore
Sheepe
keep
it
felfe
when it ranne among
the
Ravenous Wolves
in
the Wilderneffe?
Yet by
the
Good
Shepheard
it
was
preferved; This
is
the
Spirit,and comfor-
ting
Genius
of
this
Do
&rive.
Chrift keeps us,
provided
we keepe our
felves.
We
hoped
it
had
been he who
Saved Ifrael:
that
he gave
us his
holy
Spirit
to
abide
with
nsfor
ever,
to
Seale
us
up
to
the day
of
Redemption:
that
knowing
himfelfe,
and
telling us,that
without" him
we
can
doe
nothing,
he would
not
fufpend
his doing,
upon
our doing
fo
great
a
thing,
as
preferving our
felves?
For let
us fee
now,what it is,that
is
required
in
us,if
weThall
be
preferved by
Chrift:
it
is
to
comport
with him
in his
Xi
of
Perfevering
us,
and
to
be
diligent
to
keepe
ourfelves.
What
is
this,
comporting
with
him in
his
A&
of
preferving
us
?
Our
comport-
ing
with
Chrift
in
any
thing,
is
by our
Believing in
him, and
on
him:
that's our
radical].
Comportment,
whence all
other
clofings
of
Heart
in
obedience
doe
flew;
fo
then, Chrift
will
preferve
us
in.
Believing,
provided
we continue
to
Believe.
But
what need
of
his
help
to
doe
fo,
if
antecedently
thereunto
fo
we
doe?
Is
not
this
not
only
gnaw, but
alfo
áso
e,
not
only Unfcripturall ,
but
alto Unreafonable,
yea
abfurd and
Ludicrous:
This
is
the
flinty Fountain
of
all
that
Abundance
of
Confolation,which Mr
Goodwin doêtrine Both afford.
Doubtlefle they
muff;
be
Wife and Learned men
(like
himfelfe) who
,can
ex-
tral