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they
then
were,
or
as he
apprehended them to
be;
when he
fo
wrote
to
them.
Anf.
I
muff
be
forced
to
finite this
evafion
once and againe, before
we
arrive
at
the
clofe
of
this
cornea,
it being
fo
frequently made
ufe
of
by
our
Adverfary,
who
without it,
knowes
him felfe
not able
to
rand
againt
the
e-
vidence
of
any one Promife ufually
infited
on. This
is
the
fubtance of
all
thát,which
with exceeding delightfull variety
of
exprefiïons,
is
an hundred
times made
ufe of.
The Promife
is conditional),
and
made
to
thofe
that
troll
in
the
Lord, and
is to
be
made
good
only upon
the account
of
their
continuing
fo
to doe:
bait
that
they
fball fo
doe,
that
they
fhall
continue
to
troll in
the Lord,
that
is
wholly
left
to
themfelves,
and
not
in
the leafi
undertaken
in
the Promife;
and
this
is
call.
ed
a
difcharging
or
difming
of
places
of
Scripture, from
the
fervice
whereunto
(contrary
to theirproper
fence &
meaning) they are prefed,
a
delivering
them
from the bearingthe
croffe
of
this warfare, with
fuch
like Imperiall
termes
and
expreffions.
To
fpeake
in
the
fingleneffe
of
our fpirits,
we
cannot
fee a-
ny one
of
the
difcharged Souldiers,
returning
from the
Campe,
wherein
they
have long ferved for the
fafety
and confolation
of
them
that
doe
believe:
Particularly
this Scripture
deters
the
gloffe
with violence impofed
on
it, and
tells
you,that
the
end for
which
theGod
of
truth
fent it
into
this
fervice,
wherein it
abicles,is
to
affure
them
that truft
in
the Lord,
that
they
fhall be
preferved
in
that
condition
to
the
end.
That
in
the
condition
of truting
and
depending on God
,
they
fhall
be
as
Sian ,
and the Favour
of
God unto
them
as
immoveable
mountains,
he
will
for
ever
be with them and about
them:
And
that
all this fhall
certainly
come to
paffe,
Chria
does
not
fay
, that
they
(hall
be
as
etablifhed
mountaines,
if
they continue to
truft
in
the
Lord,
but
they
{hall
be
fo in
their trufling,abiding
for ever therein,through
the
fafe-
garding
prefence
of
God.
For their
being
neceffìtated
to
continue
truting
in
the Lord,
there
is
not
any
thing
in
Text, or
in
our
Argument from thence, or
in
the
doftrine
we
maintaine,
that
requires or will
admit
of
any Inch
proceed-
ing
of
God,as
by
that
expreffion
is
properly
frgnified.
Indeed there
is
a
con-
tradilion
in
termes,if
they
areufed
to
the
fame purpofe:
to
Tru.ff
in
the
Lord,
is
the
voluntary,
free aí1
of
the creature:
to
be neceffitated unto
this
Aft,and
in
the
performance
ofit,
fo
that
it fhouldbe done
neceffarill
as
to
the
manner
of
its doing,
is
wholly
dearuetive to the nature and
being
of
it.
That
God
can
effe&ually,
and
infallibly
as
to
the event,
eaufe
his
Saints
to
continue tru-
fling
in
him,withoùt the
leali abridgement
of
their liberty,yea
that
he
doth
fo
eminently by heightning and advancing
their
fpirituall
liberty, (hall
be after-
wards declared:
if
by
neceffztated
to
continue
trufiing,
not the manner
of
Gods
operation with, and them, for the
corïipafftng
of
the
end propofed, and the
efficacy
of
his
Grace, whereby
he
doth
it ( commonly decryed under
thofe
termes)
be intended ;
but
only
the certainty
of
the
iffue,
rejefting the
impro-
priety
of
the
expreffron,
the thing it
felfe
we
affirme
to be
here promifed
of
God.
But
is
urged,
4:14.
2,That this
Promife is
not
made unto the
Perfons
of
anylbut
meerely unto
their
Qualifications:
like
that
,
he
that
believeth
fhall
be
Paved
,
it
is
made
to
the
Grace
ofTrufiing,Obedience,and walkingwith
God',
for
threatnings
are made
to
the
evillQualifications
of
men.
Anf
This it
feemes
then
we
are
come
unto
,
and what farther
progreffe
tr'.ay
be
made the Lord knowes.
The
Gratious Promifes
of
God, made
to
his
Church,
his
People, in
the blond
of
Jefus,
on
which they have
rolled them-
felves
with
fafety
and fecurity
in
their feverall
generations:,
are
nothing. but
bare declarations
of
the
will
of
God;
what he
allowes,
and.
what he
relefts:
with
the
firme
concatenation
that
is
between Faith
and
falvation,
Obedience
and reward.
And
this it
feemes
is
the
only ufe
of
them
:
which
if
it
be
fo,
I
dare