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CA P.V.4.
2,3.
TheTetimony
of
Peter Mártyr
confidered.
124
which_is-tnoft
certaine
(take it
in
what
fence
you
will)
he
did
never
follow
him
in
but only
as
he gave him
his
bodily attendance,
in his going up
and
downe. He
was
never admitted
tobe
witneffe
of
his
Refurre
&ion,
the time
being nöt yet come, wherein
a
difcovery
was
to
be made
of
the
hypocrifie
of
'
yudas,that he might have
fpace
to
carry on the worke
which he
had to do,
and the number
of
thofe, who in
a
peculiar manner were
to
beare
witneffe
to
the compleating
of
the
whole
worke
of
Regeneration
in
the Refurredion
of
Chrift, being
twelve, he
who
was
afterwards
admitted into that
number
As
1.21.
being one
that
now followed him,our bleffed Saviourtelleth them
indefinitely
to
their
confolation, what will be
the
Glorious Mite
of
their
following
him,
and bearing
witneffe
to
him,
in
this
worke.
That
which
is
proraifäry
in
the
wordes,
is
made
to
them,who
forfooke
all
and followed
him
in
the
worke
mentioned,
which affuredly
he, who
was alwaies
a
theif',
a Divell,
a
covetous
person,
that
followed
not
in
the
Maine
of
the
worke
it
felfe,was
none
of;thát
Promife being afterwards
fulfilled
to another
then prefent with Chrift.
It
is
granted, ifthe
ref{
of
the twelve had
fallen
away, you
may fuppofe
of them
what
you
pleafe:
that
they might
fall away,is
to
begge
that,which
you
cannot
prove,
nor will ever be
granted
you, though
you fhotild
refolve
to
ftarve your
felfe,ifyou get
it
not: Eut
this
is
4. Confirmed
out
ofPeter Martyr,
whole
Doúrine
it
is
,
that
the Promifes
of
God are wont
to
be
made
with
a refpeft
unto the prefent
e9
ate
and
condition
things, with
men:
that
is
,
they
fall
be
performed unto men
abiding under
thof
e
qualifications,
unto which they are made;
as
for
example. What
Promifes:
foever
God
maketh
to
Relievers,
with
refßeft
had
to
their
Faith,
or
as
they.
are Believers,
are not
to
be
looked
on as
performeable, or obliging the
maker
of
them unto them,
in
cafe they
fhallrelapfe
into
their
former unbeliefe.
Anf.
It
is
too
well
known, how, and
to
what end, our Author
cites Peter
Martyr, and men
of
the
fame
judgement
with
him,
in
this
Controverfy,&
to
how
little
Advantage
to
his
Caufe with difcerning men
,
he
hath
done it.
In
the
fame
place,from whence thefe words are
taken, the Author
diftinguitheth
of
the
Promifes
of
God,
and
telleth
you
,
that
fome
of
them are
conditional!,
which are
(faith
he)
of
a Legall
nature,
which only thew
the connexion
be-
tween the
Condition,or
Qualification
they require, and the
thing they promífe
thereunto: and
fuch
are
thefe
whereof
he fpeakes:
but
others hetells you,are
Abfolute
and
Evangelicall,
not depending on
any
Condition
in
us
at
all;
and
fo
he
tells
us,
out
of
Chryfèflorne,
that
this
ofour
Saviour Mat.19..
28'. is
of
the
former fort; and
the
Accomplifhment
of
fuch
like Promifes
as
thefe
5
He in-
formes
us
to
confift
not
in
the
a
&uall fulfilling
of
what
is
conditionally
af-
firmed,
but
in
the
certain
truth
of
the
axiom,
wherein
the condition
,
and
the
Event
as
fuck, are
knit together.
2.
To
the
Example urged,
I
{hall
only askewhat
Mr
Goodrein's
judge-
ment
is
of
the
Promifes,
that
God bath made
to
Believers,
that
they
(hall ne-
ver
relapfe
into their
former flare
of
unbeliefe, and on
what
condition they
are
máde?
Whether
his Promife
of
his
Love unto, and
Acceptance
of
Belie-
vers, whereinhe
will
abide for ever, doe not inferre
their
Prefervation
in
the
Condition,
wherein they are
(i
e.
Believers
),
will in
the
next
place fall
un-
der our
Confederation. Your Conclufion
is
3
in
the
fence explained
you
ad-
mit the
Propofrtion;whatfoever God promifeth
is
certaine,that
is,it
(hall
cer-
tainly be
fulfilled,
or it
(hall
not.
There
is
moreover no
(mall
contribution
of
ftrength,
as
to our
eftablith-
4.
13'
ment
in
the
Faith of
it,given
to
our
Propofition,
by the
liignall
ingagement
of
the
FaithfullneffeofGod,
for
the
Accomplifhment
of
the
Promifes, which he
makes
unto
us;
as
it
is
manifeft in
thofe words
of
the
Apoftle,
t
Cor
:1.9.
God
is
faithful!