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P.
I V.ß:
tz.
M. G's Inferences
weighed
The
Prom.alwaies
fulfilled
104
Anf.
r.
Suppofe
the
words may be thus
rendred,
what
inconvenience
will
enfue?Either way
they evidently
&
beyond exception
defigne
out
the End
ai-
med at byGod; and
when God intends an Entb or Event; fo
as
to
exert
a
re-
all
efficiency
for
the
compaffing
of
it, to
fay
that
it
(hall
not be
,infallibly
brought about,
is
an Affertion,
that
many have
not
as
yet had
the.:boldneffe
to venture
on.
..But
faith he:
2.
The
words
fo read
doe
not
necefarily import
the
alluall
event
or taking
place;
of
the
effect
intended
of
God
in
the Promì
fe,and his
performance
thereof,
but
only
his intention
it
felfe
in
both
theft, and
the
f
ufft'cieìacy
of
the
meant
allow-
ed
for
the producing
fuch
an
eeee1:
but
it
is
of
thefitme
nature
with
that,
than
our
Saviour
faith
Iohn
5.34.
thefe
things
Ifay
unto
you,that yee
might
be
Paved:And
that
of
God
to
Adam
Gen
:3.1o,r
a.
All
which.things were
in
like
manner
infi-
fted on by
the
Remonfirants at the
Hague Colloquie.,
Anf
It
is
not
amifle
that
our
contefis
about the
fence
of
this place
of
Scripture,are at length
come
to the
fiate and
iffue
here
expreffed.
It
is
grant-
ed, the thing promifed, and
that
according
to
the intendment
of
God,
is
Per
-
feverance
:
but
that
there
is
any neceffity
that
this
Promìfe
of
God
Ihould
be
fulfilled, or
his
intention
acconiplifhed
,
that
is
denied.
Were it
not,
that
I
fhould
prevent
my
felfe , in
what
will
be more feafonable
to
be handled,
when we come
to the
conuideration
of
the
Promifes
ofGod,I
Ihould very wil-
lingly
ingage
hereinto
the
proofe
of
this Affertion
:
When God
purpofeth
or
intendeth
an
event, and
promifeth
to
dire
it:,
to
that
end
putting forth and
exerciling an
efficient
reali
power,
it fhall certainly be accomplifbed
and
brought
to
piffle;
neither
can this
be denied without calling
the
greatefi
re-
proach ofMutability,
Impotency,
and
breach
of
Word
trpon
the
mofi Holy,
that
is
poffible for any man
to
doe;
Neither doe the
Remonfirants,
nor
Mr
Good-
win
acquit themfelves from
a
participation
in fo
high
a
crime,
by
their
in-
fiance
of
Gen.
3.10,1
1.
where
a
Command
of
God
is
only related
to
expreffe
his
duty
to
whom
it
was
given,
not
in
the
leali aflerting
any
intention
of
God
about the
event;
or
Promife,, as
to
the
meanes
of
its Accomplifhment.
Nor
cloth
that
of
lohn
8.28
give them
anymore
afffanceintheir
fad
underta-
king to
alleviate the
truth
of
God.
A
meanes
of
Salvation
in
its own
nature
and kind
fufficient
is
exhibited,
which afferts
not
an
infallible neceflity
of
e-
v
ent,
as
that
cloth which
in
this place
is
afcribed to God.
But
it
is
added.
6. (Se&. 5.1.)
The
continuance
of
external[
and
civill
profperity
to
the
yewifb
Nation
may much more colourably
be
argued
from
hence,
then the certainty
of
their
Perfeverance
in
Grace:
fir
thefe
things
are
neo
fi
exprefly
promifed,
verfes
39,
40. andyet
we
find
that
upon
their
nonperformance
of
the condition, they are be-
come
the moll contemptible
and
miferable Nation
under Heaven: certainly then
the Spirituali
Promifes here
mug
alfo depend on conditions,whieb
if
not
fulfilled,
they alfo may
come
fl
ors
ofperforsnance.
Anf: r.
Rom:
IL
25, 26, 27.
2.
Thefe
Temporali Promifes
were
ful-
filled
unto
them
,
fo
farre
as
they were made
to them, that
is, as
they
were
Type
call,
and what
is
behind
ofthem,
fhall
be made good
in
due
time.
3.
All
thefePromifes
are,
and were
in
their
chiefefi
and
moll
eminent concern
-
ments(even the fpirituall things
Pet
forth by
allulons to the
good land,where-
in
they
lived) compleatly and
abfolutely
fulfilled
to them
all,
and every one,
to
whom
they
were properly and
direly
made,
as
the
Apofile
abundantly
proveth
Rom:
9.
ro,r i.
4.
Whereas
there
are two
fpeciall
fpirituall
Promi-
fes
here expreffed, one
of
Converton,
the other
of
Perfeverance,
I
defire to
know
on
what condition
their
accomplifhment isfufpended
?
On what
con-
dition
will
God write
his
Law
in
their hearts?
On
condition
they heare
him, and
obey
hi
n,
fuf
er
his mercies
and
kindneffér
to
work
kindly
on
then
;
that
is
,
on
condition