143 / 504
John
6.38,49,4o.
& the Argum. from thenceVindicated,
CA.P.111.ß:gy.
tra& any fuch
thing therefrom;
Let
him
goe with it
to
a
poore
weake
temp-
87
ted fainting
Believer,
and
try what
a
Comforter
he
will
be thought,
a
Phyfi-
.
tian
of
what value he
will
be
efteemed. Let him
tell
him
,
thou
art
indeed
weake
in
Faith, ready
to
decay and perifb, which
thou
tnaift
doe,
every day,
there
being
neither Purpofe
not
Promife
ofGod to the contrary;
great Oppo,.
Gtions,
and
great Temptations haft
thou
to
wreftle:
withal],
but
yet
Chrift
is
loving,
tender,
faithful!,
and
in cafe
thou continueft
Believing
,-he
will
take
care thou (halt believe:
That
Chrift
will increafe
thy
Faith, and
keep it alive
by continual)
influences,
as
from a
Head into its Members, prefervirig
thee
not
only againft
outward
Enimies,
but the
treacheries
and
deceits,
and unbe
-.
liefe
of
thine own
heart,
of
any fuch
thing I
can give
thee no
account.
Such
Confolation
a
poore man
may
have
at
home at any time.
Further; what
is
that
A&
of
Chrift
in
Preferving them
that
is
to
be coin-
ported
withall
?
Wherein
doth it
confift
?
Is
it not
in
his
dayly
continuali
IAA.
16.
Communication
to
them
of
new fupplyes
of
that
Spirituali life,whofe fprings
4ch°2,22-3!
are
in him
?
The
making
out
from
his
owne
fulnefé
unto
them:?
His
perfor-
a. 21,
aa.
suing
the
office
of
an
Head
to
its Members, and 'filling thofe other.
Relations 4
5i`
Gat-pi:-
ral a.
zo.
wherein
he
ítands,working
in
them
both
to
will
&
to
doe
of
hi
r o
vn
good
plea-
co1.,.,r,,
8,
fare?
What
is
it
then
to
comport
with
this
Ad,
or
thefe
A
&s
ofChift
?
Can any
79.
2.
r9
thing reafonable be
invented, wherein
fuch
comportment
may
be thought
to
confift,
but
either
it
will be found coincident with
that,
whereof it
is
a
Condition,
or
appeare
to
be fuch
as will crufh
the
whole
undertaking
of
Chrift for
the Prefervation
of
Believers
into vanity and
nothing? Againe,
hath
Chrift
undertaken
to
Preferve
us
againft
all
our
Enemies,
or
fome only
?
If
Heb.
7.
,g:
force
only,
give
us
an Account
both
of
them;
that
he
Both
undertake a-
gainft,
that
we
may know for
what to
goe
to
him,
whereof
to complain;
and
of
them, that
he
doth not
fo
undertake to
fafegard
us
againft
them,
that
we may
know, wherein
to
traft to
our
felves ?
And
let
us
fee
the
places
of
ioh.
t
3.
g.
Scripture,wherein anyEnemies are excepted
out
of
this
undertaking
of
Chrift
irdi
30.
for
the
fafety
of
his?
Paul
goes far
in an
enumeration
of
particulars
Rom.8:
If
he hath
undertaken
againft them all, then let
us
know,whither it be
an
Ene-
my
that
keeps
us
from this
Comportment with Chrift,or
a
Freirad
?
If
it
be an
Enemy,(as
Purely
every thing
in
us,
that
moves
usto
depart
from the living
God is) hath Chrift undertaken againft
it
or no
Ìfnot,how
bath
he
underta-
ken
againftthem all
?
Ìfhe hath,
how
is
it
that it
prevailes
?
Yea
but
he
un-
dertakes
this
in
cafe
we
comport
with him;
that
is,
he
undertakes to
overcome
fuch
an
Enemy,in cafe
there
be no
fuch Enemy.
In cafewe be
not turned
afide
from
comporting with him, he
will
deftroy
that
Enitny
that
turnes
us afide
from comporting with him.
Egregiam veto laudem
eP fpolia
ampla.
Or
on
the
otherfide,
if
our
Enemyes
prevaile not againft us, he
bath
faithfully
under-
takenthat
they
f
iall
not
prevaile againft
us.
Yea
but
(faith Mr
Goodwin)
No
Scripture
prooves
that
thofe,.whom
Chriff
pre-
fernes,
muff
by
any compulfory, neceffit
ating Power,
u
fe
their
diligence in
prefer
-
ving
them
felve
s.
And
who
I
pray ever
fail
they did
?
Compulfory
A&ings
of
Grace are your own figment;
fo
are
all Inch neceffitating
Ai7s.,which
procceed
any
further;
then only
as
to the
infallibillity
of
the
Event aymed at. God
doth not
compel!
the
Wills
ofinen,when
he workes
in
them
to
will.
Chrift
doth not
compelí men
to
Care and
Dilligence,
when he workes
in
Rom.
2,a.
them Holy
Care and
Diligence
when
the
Difciples
prayed,
Lord
in-
Lak.,9.5.
creafe our
Faith,
they
did
not
pray
that
they might be
compelled.
to
Believe.
Gods
working
in
them, that
Believe,
according
to the
exceeding
col.r.ri,ra
greatneffe
of
his Power,.
firengthning
them
with
all
might,
according
to
his Glori-
eus
Power
unto
allpatience
and
long-
fufering,
with7oyfullnefe, very farre from
any