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Mr
G's Exceptions conlîdered & rernooved.
208 phrafe
or
locution
is
improper,
fo
to
deny,thàt there
is
a
Promife
o
fnut
g
preferved, by
the
Spirit
of
God
in believing,
is
not
to
Anfwer
our
Ar ument,
but
to
beg
the thing
in
Queftion, vea
to
deny the pofitive
afertion
of'
the
Lord Chrift:
But
if
there
benot
fuck a
Promife
in
the words, what'
then
is
in
them, what doe they
containe? Saith
he,
2.
They
are
only
a
Declaration
and
Affertion made
by
Chr ,
of
the
Excel_
lency,
and
def
reableneffe
of
that
life,
which
he comes to
give untothe
World,
above
the life
ofnature,
which is
common unto
all;'
This,
by
comparing the
words
with
thofe
in theformer
verfe, is
evident:
whofoever
Drinketh
of
this
water,
fball
thirft
againe; but
whofoever
Driniteth
of
the
water,tha
t
I
(hall give him
&c.
that
is,the
bell
meanes,
that
can
be
had and
enjoyed, to
render
this prefent life free from
in..
conveniencies,
will not
effeEt
it:
but
whofoever
(hall
Drinke
, Injoy, Receive
and
Believe
the Doarine,which
I
fhall adminiiter
unto
him,
fhall
hereby
be
made par-
taker
o
f
filch a life, which
(hall within
a
fhort time,
if
men
be
carefuli
in
the
in_
terim
to
preferve
it,
by
reafon
of
the nature,
and
perfect condition, and conttituti_
on
of
it,
be
exempt
from
id/
farrow,
trouble,
and
inconvenience
whatfoever,
as
be-
ing
eternal!,
Anf
r
That
thefewords
are
only an Affertion
of
the
excellency and
dcfireablenefhe
of
that
eternal!
life, which
Chrift would
give,
above the natu-
rall,
that
theWoman
fued
to
futtaine, and
that
this appears
from
the
Con-
text
,
is
faid
indeed,
but
no more.
Ít
is
true,our
Saviour
doth
divert
the
thoughts
of
the Woman, from
the
naturali
life,
and care
for provifon about
it,
with
an
infinuation
of
a
better
life
to
be
attained: but
is
this
all
he doth,
or
is
this
the intendment
of
the
Words
under confideration
?
Doth not the
maine
of
the
oppofition,
or
difference which
at
prefent he
fpeakes
unto
,
.lye
in
the
fapplies,that are
given
for
the
two kinds
of
Life,whereof he
fpeakes?
The
Wa-
ter
he
tells her, which
fhe
drew
from
that Well,by
which
he fate,
for the
fup-
ply
Of
her naturall
life, was fuch,
that
after her drinking
of
it,
the
fhoulct
quickly
return
to the
fame Condition
of
thirft,
as
formerly
before fhe
drank
of
it But
that
which he gave, was fuch,
as
that
who ever drank
of
it,
fhould
thirft
no more,
but
be certainely preferved in, and
unto
the
full.
fruition
Of
that
Life,
whereof it
is
the
meanes
and
fupply.
The
oppo
fition
is
not between the
lives
continued, but the meaneofcpnfolation, and
its
efficacy.
2.
It
is
not
the
Condition
of
the
Life
naturall,which
is
fiibjelt to
diffolu-
tion,&
not capable
ofperfection,that
is
the
R
eafon
why
they thirft
again
k
againe
that haveWater naturali for the
refrefhment
thereof
But'tis
the
nature;
of
the
meanes
it
felfe,which
is
fupplyed,that
is
not
fitted
nor
fuited
to
penna
-;
nency,
&
abiding ufefullneffe,(as the
Water,
which Clint}
Promifes,is,)that
heinfifts on.There
is
not
any
thing
leades us
to
fuppofe,that
it
is
the
Imperfe-
Etionof
Life,.
and not the
Condition
of
the
meanes
of
natural!
life,
that
is
pri-
marily intended
in
the inftituted Comparifon: though the
frailty,
and no-
thingneflë
of that
life
alto,
be,
afterwards
intimated,
in°the
fubítitution of
E-
ternall
life
unto the thoughts
of
the poore woman,
in
the
Koome there-
of.
3.
(I
fay
that)
it
is
not the
Doílrine
of
Chrifi
,
but
his
spirit princi-
pally,that
he
is
here
Paid
to
give
as
W
ater-
and
that
this
is
not promifed
to
make.men partakers
ofEternall
Life,
if
in
the
interim
they
be
careful!
to
pre-
ferve
it but
to
preferve them
to it,
-and
to
give them
that
Care,
whiéh,
as
a
Grace,is needfull
thereunto.
The
plaine
intendment
ofthe Promife
is,
that
by
the water they drinke they
thall be
kept and
preferved
in
the
Life,where
of
they are made
partakers,unto the fulnetfe and
perfection
of
it
which pre
fervation by the
parenthefis(if
any
be
carefull
in
the interim
to
preferve
it)is
di-
redly