265 / 504
M.
G's
Exceptions confidered and removed.
C.
VIII.
4:33.
redly
taken
away from
the
Spirit
that
Chriftpromifeth,and
afiignedto
mens
209
owne care,
even in
contradiftin
&ion
to
all
the
benefits, which
they receive
by
him
,
being
fo
bellowed on them.
The
difference then here between
yefus
chrifl, and Mr
Goodwin,
is
this Chrift
faith,
theWater
that
he
fliállgive,
will
be
a
wellfpringing
up
to Everlafling
Life;Mr Goodwin,That
it
is
the
Care
of
men
to
preferve themfelves,
Mat
produces
that
Effelf.
4.
The
prefent exemption,
which
we
have
by
the Waters ofChrifts gi-
ving,
is
not from
forrow and trouble,
but
from
thirft: that
is,from
what
is
oppofed
unto,
and
is
deftruftive
of
.that Life,
which he
alto
gives:
as
natu-
rall thirft
is
unto naturali
life.
But
of
this
thirft,
and
our exemption from
it,I
have
fpoken
before.
It
is
not then the nature
and condition
of
the
Life promi-
fed,
that
he points
unto,
no farther then
as
it
is
coincident with
the
meanes
of
it,
here
fpoken
of.
Indeed
this
meanes
of
life,
is
our
life,
as
to
the inchoation
ofit
here
below, and
its
daily growing up
unto
perfeftion.
But
he adds
Sea.
I
t.
1.
That
he cloth
not
oppofe
thatLife,rohich
accrues
mito mé
by
drinking
that
Water
4,
33^
which
he
gives
thë,untó the
natural'
life,which
they live,by other
means,in refpeti
of
the prefent Condition,or Conflitution
of
it,or
as
it
is enjoyed
by
men
in
this
pre-
fent
world,is evident
from
hence, becaufe he
alerts it
free
from thirfl,
(flndl
ne-
ver
third,).
Now
we know
that
the
Saints themfelves,notwithJanding
that
life
of
Grace,
Which
is in
them,
by
drinking that
Water
that
Chrifl
bath given
them,
are
yet
fubjet
to
both
kinds
o
f
Thirfl,
as well
that
which
iscorporeal)
ar naturali,
us
that
which
is Spirituall; yea
the SpirituallThir3"t, unto which they are
now
fob)eEf;
though
it
argues
a
deficiency
ofwhat
they would
farther have,
or
defre
to
be
and
in that
refpeEf
,
is
troublefome,
yet
is
it
Argumentative
of
the
goodneffe
of
their
Condition.Mat.
5.6.
Anf,
1.
The
fumme
of
this Anfwer
is
that
the Life
here
fpolj'nì
of,land
pro
-
mifed,
is
not
that
Spiritualllife,whereof
we
are
here made
partakers but eternal
life,
whichis
for
to come,
which,
when any
attaine,
they
(hall never
fade
in,
or
fall
from
but whether
they may
or
(hall attaine
it
or no,
here
is nothing fpoken. But
here
is
no notice
taken,
of
the
maine oppofition
.infifted
on by
our
Saviour,.
between
the
fupplies
of
the
Spirit
for
life
Eternall,
which faile
not
,
nor
fuf-
fers them
to
thirfi,
to
whom
they
are given, and
the
fupplies
of
naturali
life,
by Elementary water, notwithftanding which;they, who are made partakers
thereof, doe
in
a
fhort
feafon, come
to
a
total)
want
of
it againe. Inftead
of
Anfwers
to our
Argument
from
this place, we
meet with nothing
but perpetu-
all diverfionsfrom
the
whole ¡cope and
intendment
of
it,
and at
laft
are
told,
that
the Promife
fignifies
only,
that
men
[
hould
not
want Grace,when they
come
to
Heaven.
2.
To
prove
that
there
is
no Promife
of
any
abiding
fpiritttall Life
here,
thofe
words
they
(hall
never
third,
are produced;"
That
we
(hall
have
our
life continued
to the
full
injoyment
of
it
unto
eternity
,
becaufe
fuch
are
the
fupplies
of
the
Spirit
bellowed
on
us,that
we [hall
never thirft,
is
the Argil-
ment
of
our Saviour:
That
there
is
no fuch life
promifed,
or
here
to
be
attai-
ned,
becaufe
in
it
we
fhall
notthirfl,
is
Mr
Goodwin.
3
It
is
not-
the
intendment
of
our Saviour,
to
prove
that
we
(hall
not
thìrfï; becaufe we
[hall
have
fuch
a
life;
but the quite contrary ;
that
we
[hall
have
fuch a
life,
and
[hall affuredly
be preferved,
becaufe
the
fupplies
of the
Spirit which he gives,will
certainly take away
the
thirft,
which
is
fo
oppofite
to
it,
as
to
be defiruftive
of
it.
4.
It
is
true,
the
Saints
notwithflanding
this
Promife;
are
frill
liable
to
Thir.ff,
that
Thir(l
intimated
Mat.
5.
6.
after
Righteoufneli
e
;
but
not
at all
ro"
that
Thirft,
which
they have
a
Promife here to be
freed from
a
Thirft
of
an
E e
uni-