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CAP.
V.
Chrifl,
upon the
account
of
the
Abfolute Stability
of
that
Covenant
ofG
race,
s
r
t
whereof Godsingagement
to
be their God, and
never forfake
them,
is
an e-
minent portion.
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GAP.
V.
I.
Entrance
into
the Argument fromthe
Promifes
of
God, with their ¡lability,
and his Faithfulneffe in
them.
z.
The
ufuall
Exceptions
to this
Argument. 3. Agenerall
defcription
ofGofpellPro-
mifes.
4. Why,and
on
what account
called Gofpeil-Promifes
:
The
defcription given,generall;
not
fuited
to
any fingle Promife.
5.
Theyare free: and that they are
-fo,
proved.
all flowing
from
the
firfigreat Promife
ofgiving
a Reifeemer. 6.
How they aredifcoveries
of
Gods good-
will:
How made
to
Sinners: confequentiall
Promifes made allo
to
Believers. y. Given
in,
and
through Chrift: in a Covenant
of
Grace.
Their certainty
upon the Account
of
the engagement
of
the Truth and Faithfulnelfe
of
God in
them:
of
the
main
matterof
thefe
promifes,Chrift and
the
Spirit. 8. Of particular Promifes, all flowingfrom the
fame
Loveand Grace. 9. Obferva.
pions
of
the
Promifes
of
God, fubfervientro the
Endintcnded:
(t.)
They are all true and faith
-
full:
the ground
ofthe
Affection:
(a.)
Theiraccomplilhment
alwaies
certaine, not alwaies evi,
dent:
(.)
All
conditionall
Promifes madegood: and
how.
to. (4.)The
Promife
of
Perfeve-
rance
of
two
forts:
(50
All Promifes
of
our abiding with God
in
Faith andObedience, abfolute:
The
vanity ofimpofrng
conditions
on them,difcovered:
(6.)
Frontifes
of
Gods abiding
with
us,
not
tobe
feparated
fromPromifes of our abiding
with
him:
(,.)
That
they doe
not roperly
depend on any condition
in
Believers,demonftrated: inftancesof this
Affection given:
(8)
(Ma-
king
them
conditional'
renders
them
voyd,
as
to
the Ends,
for which
they are
given:)
given
to
perfons,not
Qualifications:
tr.
The Argument
from
the
Fromifes
of
God,flated.
r2.
Mr
G's
Exceptions
againft the
Fief
Propofition cleared,and hisObjeftions Anfwered: The Frontifesof
God
alwaies fulfilled:
Of
the Promife madeto Paul Ails
27.24.erc. Good
men
make good
their
Promifes to
the
utmoft
oftheir
abilities.
The
Promife made
to Paulabfolute,
and
of
infallible
accon:plilhmenr. Of
the
promife
of
ourSaviont to hisDilciples
Mat. 1g. 28.
Who intended in
that
Promife:
not
Judas:the accomplilhment
of
the Promife:The Teftimory
of
Peter
MartyrCon-
fidered: The conclufion
of
the forementioned Objeftion.
13.
The
ingagement
of
the Faith
-
fulnefleof
God for the accompliffiment
of
his Promife:
t
Cor.t.9.
r
7bef.5.23,24.
2
Thef.
3.3.
14.
The
nature
of the
Faithfulnelfe
of
God expreffed
in
the foregoing
places, inquired
into per-
verted
by
MG.
His
notion
of
the
Faithfulneffe
of
God,weighed
and
rejefed :what
intended
in
the Scriptures
by
the
Faithfulneffe
ofGod:The dole
of
the confirmation
of
the
propofitionof
the
Argumentpropofed from the Promifes
of
God.
r5.
The.affumption
thereof
vindicated:The
fence
put upon
it
by M.
G.The
Quefrion begged.
He confideration
of
the
Promifes
of
God,
which
are
all
branches
of
ß.
a.
the
forementioned Roote,
all flreatning from
the
fountain
of
the
Covenant
of
Grace,
is
, according
to
the
method
propofed,
in
the
next
place
incumbent on
us.
The
Argument
for
the
Truth
under
contefl,
which from hence
is
afforded,
and ufed,
is
by Mr
Goodwin
termed
the
frrfl
-borne
of
ourfirength,
cap.
I
i.sell.I.
pa
g.
225. and
indeed
we
are
con-
tent, that it
may
be
fo
accounted, defiring nothing
more ancient, nothing
more
.flrong,
effeecuall,
and powerful'
to
flay
our
Cordes
upon, then the
Pro-
mifes
ofthat
God,
who
cannot
lye.
I (hall
for
the prefent
in(ìft
only on thofe,
Heb.6.r8.
which peculiarly
affert, and
in
the
name and
Authority
of
God,confirme
that
Titus
1.2.
part ofthe
Truth,
we
are peculiarly
in
Demonftration
of
;
namely
the
Un-
changeable (lability
of
the
Love and Favour
of
God
to
Believers,
in
regard
whereof
he
turneth not
from them, nor forfaketh them , upon
the
Account
of
any
fuch hiterveniences
what ever,
as
he will
firffer
to
be interpofed
in
their
communion with
him;
leaving thofe, wherein he gives Affurance upon
Af-
furance,
that he
will
give
out unto them
fuch
continuall
fupplies
of
his Spi-'
rit