145 / 504
Mar: 4.
24.
Explained.
CA P.111.4:49,5°.
and the power,of that
,
that
it
Mould
not have dominion over them
in
the 89
morning
?
The
Apoftle
tells
us
that
he came
to
doe
the
will
of
God
,
whereby
we
are
fanaified
:
Heb:
ió.9, to.
it
was
the
Will
of
God,that
heMould
fanCt ify
us:
and he
tells
his
Father
,
that
he
had
kept
all
his
own
in
the World
,
7oh:
s
7.
which doubtleffe was
not
his
railing them
from the dead.
If
he
be the Me-
diator
of
the Covenant
ofGrace,
if'
the
Promifes
of
God be
yea
and
amen
in
him,
if
he be
our
Head; Husband,
and
Elder Brother,
out
Advocate
and
Intercef-
four,
our
Sheapheard
and
Saviour, his
keeping
us
from being loft extends
it
(elfe
no
leffe effeerually
to
our prefervationfrom
utter
ruine
in this
life,
then
to
our
railing
at
the
laft day; yea and
that
exceptive particle
(
)
includes
this prefervation,
as
well
as
leads
tis
to
the addition
of
theother
Favour
and
Priviledge
of
being railed
to
Glory
at the
laft day.
Ina
word; this
whole
"dif-
courfe
is
added
to
make good
that
Gracious Promife
of
our
Saviour
'0:3
S.
He
that
cometh
to
mee,
(hall
never hunger:
and
he
that
Believes on me,
pall
never
thirß5 which
how it
can
be done
by
a
naked ingagement for
the
Refürreéti
on
ofthem that
come
to
him, and abide with
him;
if
many doe,
&
molt
of
all
them
that
come
to
him,
may
depart
from him,and
fall
into
everlafling ruine,
needs
Mr
Goodwin
farther labour and
paines
to
unfold.
What
is
laftly
added
concerning Chrift'sdoeing
the
utmofi
of
hisFathersPleaftre
for
their
Cußody,but
the
fault
is
theirown,
who
fall
away,is
the
fame inconfiftent ridiculous Affertion
with
that
erewhile confidered
:
with this addition ,
that
whereas
it
is
his
Fa.
thers Pleafure,
that
they be faved; Chrift
doth
his
pleafure
to the utmoft, and
yet
faved they are
not. And
fo much
(if
not too much) for the vindication
of
this Teftimony witneffing to
the
Truth that
we
have
in
hand.
Mat:24.24.
comes in
the
next place
to
be Confidered, (an unqueftionable 4.49i
Evidence
to
the
Truth)
and
that
voluntarily
of
its
own accord
,
fpeaking
fo
plaine
to thematter
in
hand, that
it
were
a finne
againft cleare light
to
refufe
to
attend unto
it;
fo
farre
is
it
from being compelled
to
beare
the
Crofle
of
this fervice, as Mr
Goodwin
phrafes
thèmatter
Cap:
to.
Se&:9,
Pag:
18a,í
82,
183.
They
fhallfeduce,if
it
were
pof
f
ble,
the
very
Elea:
hence
(
faith he)
it
is
in-
ferred, that
the deceiving
or
feducing
of
them
that
Believe
is
a
thing impoff
ble,
which
it
the drawing
of
darkneffe
oat
of
light.
Strange
!
to
me it
feemes fo
farrefrom
a
forced inference,
or
a
(trained
drawing
of
a
Conclufion,
that it
is
but
the
converfion
of
the termes
ofthe
fame
Identicall'fuppofition. He
that
faies,
they
Pall
deceive the very Elect;
if
it
werepoffible
,
fo
mighty
Mall
be
their
prevalency
in
feducing,
feemes
to
mee
(and would,
I
doubt not,
doe
fo
to
o-
thers,
did not their prejudicesand ingagements' force them to (toppe
their
eares,&
Milt
their
eyes)to
fay,
that
it
is Impoffible
the
Eleítfhould
be
feduced.
But
let the
Place (as
it
deferves) be more
diftinfly
confidered;
It
is
among
4: Sot
them,
which
I
referre
to the
head
ofthe
Purpofes
of
God;
and
a Purpofe
of
God there
is
(though not expreffed,yet) included
in
the
words:
The
Impo-
bility
o
f
the
fedudion
of
fome perfons from
the
Faith,is
here
Afferted:
Whence
cloth
this Impoffrbility arife?
Not
from any
thing in themfelves
,
not from
their
own
careful].
Confideration
of
all
the
Concernments'oftheir Condition,
the only prefervative in
fuch
a
feafon,
if
fome
(who pretend
thernfelves
skit=
full
and experienced,yea almoft
the
only Phyfitians
of
Soules,)
may
be
belie-
ved.
They
can never Rand
upon
fuch
fands,
againft
that
oppofition
they
Ihall be fore
to
meet
withal!.
Our
Saviour therefore
intimates, whence
the
Impofübilityexprefed
doth
flow, in
a
defcription
of
the
Perfons,
of
whom
it
is
affirmed, in
reference
to
the Purpofe
ofGod
concerning
them.
They
are
the
EleC,
Thofe whom
Cod
hath
chofen
before"
the foundation
of
the
World;
that
they
fhould
be
holy
and
unblameable
before
him in
love.
His
Purpofe
according
to
EPli.
r
is;
Eletlion
mutt ftand
firm;
and therefore
the
EleCtion
it
felfe
íhall
obtain. This
,,;7,
N
`;'.'
then