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M.G's
interpretation
farther
difproved.
the
words in
hand, according to
theeftimate
here taken
of
them.
It
is
true,
t07
it
is
in
the
Expofition
under
confederation
left
doubtfull
and ambiguous,
whe-
ther
Inch,
or
fuch
an
Event
(hall
follow
the
promifçd
wings ofGod
or no;
but
what God promifeth concerning
his
dealing with them,
that
without
fup-
pofall
of
any
condition what ever,
ilia!!
be accomplifhed, According
as a
fence
ferves
the
turne,
fo
it
is
to
be embraced, when
men
are once engaged againft
the
Truth.
3.
Neither doth
this
Interpretation
fo
much
as
take
notice of, much
leffe
Both
it with
any
ftrength,
or
evidence, wave
our
Argument
for
the
Saints
Per
-
feverance
from
this place.
We
affirme
r. That
the Promife God made
unto, or the Covenant
he makes here with his people,
is
diftingui(hed
from,
or
oppofed
unto the Covenant
that
was
broken,
upon this.account,
that that
was
broken
by the
default
ofthem,with
whom it was
made;but God would
take care and provide
that
this Ihould
not faile,
but
be Everlafting.
f
er:
31.
32,
.33.
Ch32.4o
Heb.8.8,9.
2.
That
the intendment
of
God
in
this
Promife,
and the adminiftration
of
this
Covenant, with
meanes
and power mentioned
therein,
is
the
abiding
of
his
saints
with him, or
rather
(
primarily, and prin-
eipally)
his
abidingwith them, notwithftanding
all fuch
interventences,
as
he
will not powerfully prevent from everinterpofing
to the
difturbance
of
that
Communion
he taketh
them into.
Iwill, faith
he,
make
an
everlasting
Cove-
nant
with them,
that
I
will
not
torn
away
from
them
from
doing them good.
Now
thefe
things, and
fuch like,
are
not
once
taken notice
of,
in
the
expofition
boafted
to
be
full
and
cleare.
Sty
Neither
indeed hath it
any
affinity
unto, or acquaintance
in
name
or
ß. 15.
thing, with the
words or
intendment
of
God, with the Grace
of
the Promife,
or the Promife
it
felfe..
For
,
r. God
(
faies
he)
will
give them
one
heart
and
one
way,
or
he
will
put his
Law
in their inward parts, and
write
it
in their
Hearts
:
which
is
plainely
the
work
of
his
Grace in
them,
and not the
effect
and fruit
of
his
dealing
with
them. In the
Gloffe in
hand, the work
of
God
is
limited
to
filch
dealings with
them,
as
may overcome them
to
fuch
a
frame.
The
having
of
a new
heart
is
either the immediate work
of
God; or it
is
their yeelding unto their
duty to
him, upon
his
dealing bountifully and gracioufly with them.
If
the Firft;
it
is
what the
Scripture
affirmes,
and
all
that
we
delire:
If
the Latter;
how comes
it
to
be
expreffed in
termes holdingout
an
immediate
Divine
Efficiency?
That
the takingaway
of
a
heart
of
Stone,
the
giving
of
a new
heart,
and Spirit,
the
writing
of
the
Law in
their
hearts,
and
(
which
is
all
one) the
quickning
of
the
Dead, the
opening
of
blind
eyes,
thebegetting ofus
a
new,
as
they relate
unto God,doe
lignifie
no
snore
but
his
adminiftration ofineanes,whereby men
maybe
wrought upon, and perfwaded
to
bring-their
"hearts
and
fpirits
into
fuch a
condition,
as is
defcribed
in
thole expreflions,
to
quicken themfelves,
to
open,their blind
eyes
&c. Mr
Goodwin
(hall fcarce
be able
to
-evince.
2. Converfion,
and
Pardon
of
Sinne
being
both
in
this
promife
of
the Co-
venant
(I
take
in
alto
that
place
of
the
faine
importance caP.31.) and rela-
ting
alike
to
the
Grace
of
God,if
Converfion, or
the
giving
of
a
new
heart,
he
done
only
by adminiftring
outward
meanes,
and
perfwafions
unto
men
to
makethe new heatrs;
the
forgivenefe
o
f
sins
muff
all()
be
fuppofed
to
be ten
-
dred unto
them upon
the condition,that their
finites
be forgiven;
as
Conver-
lion is,on condition they be
converted, or doe convert
themfelves.
3.
This Promife being by
the Prophet and
Apoftle infifted
on,as contain-
ing the Grace,whereby eminently and peculiarly the
New
Covenant is
difin
guifhee' from
that
which
was
abolifhed;
If
the
Grace
mentioned
therein
,
be
only the
laying
a
powerfill and ftrong
obligation on men
to duty,
and
obe-
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dience