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CAPJX.
4,g
Intercefsion
of
Chraas
afsigned by Mr
G.
difproved.
222
finite,
wicl¿edneffe, loofeneffe,profaneneffe,
could
not
unfaint
men,
and
herebyfe-
parate
them
from
them
from that
love,
wherewith Chrrfl
fometimes
loved them,
(fàr
that
Iniquity willfeparate
between
men,and their
God,
is evident
from tfa.
59.2.)Butthe
cleare
meaning
is,that
nothing,
no
Creature whatfoever,
perfon,or
thing,
can.make
Chrisi
an
enemy to
thofe,
who
Mall
in
Faith and
Love,
cleave
fall
unto him.,
Anf:
i.
All
this refpeð only one expreflion
in
this
one
place
of
Scrip
ture,
and arifeth not, with the leaft power,
againft
our
Argument taken
from many
places
in
Conjunction, explicatory one
of
an
other;
It
runns
alto.
upon
the
fame miftake with
the former, taking the
exaltation
of
Believers,up-
on the
Interceffron
of
Chrift
in
their
behalfe, which holds
out the
Iffue
of
it,
to
be
expreffive
of
the matter
of
his
Interceflìon; being
only
a
demonftration
of
the event
of
of
it;
But
grant
this
to
be the
tenor
and
effèét
of
Chrifts
Inter
-
ceflìon,that
Believers may
not
be
feparated from
his
Love:
is
he
heard there
-
in,
or
is
he
not
?
Whatfoever
be the
iffue
of
the queftion, our procedure
will
be
facile. But
it
is
Paid,
that it
is
not
the
Love,; wherewith
we love
chri.11
but that
wherewith
he
loveth
us,that
we
fbail
not
be
feparated
from
take
this
all()
for
granted, that
it
is
that,
&
that
only: will this
advantage your
Caufec
If
we
be
never
feparated
from
that
Love
that
Chrift
bears
us
,
is
it
pcfiìble
we
f
could
wholly be feparated
fiotn that
Love,
that
we
beare
him
?
Wherein
confìfts
our feparation from
that
Love,
that
Chrift bears
us
?
How.
is
it
confect,
or.may it beprocured
?
Is
it
not
by
the
toile
of
our Faith
and Love
to
him?
Or
at
leaft
is
it not aninfeparable confequencethereof
?
Or
can
it
poffibly come
to
paffe
any otherwife,
then
on
that
account
?
If then
he
Intercedes
that
we
may not be feparated from
that
Love
he
bears
us,
and
that
Love inferrs
the
continuance
of
ours,
doth he
not withall
Intercede,that
we may
never
lode
that
Love, wherewith we love him,
by
which we
continue
in his
Love
?
If
the
old
fhift
be not at hand
for a reliefe, this
young
part
of
the
Anfwer will
inflantly
Puffer
Joffe.
It
is
added therefore,
he
loveth us, as
we
are
Saints
and
abide
in
bis
Love,
that
is,
(for
fo we muff
underftand
it,)
whiift we
are
fo; for
that
he
beares
any
effe
&wall
Love
to
us,
to keepe
us
up
to
Saintfhip,
that
is
denyed;
'tis
true,Chrift
loveth
us as
Saints,
and
as
abiding
in his
Coalman-
dements;
but
it
is
alb
his
Love
to
keepe us, and
he
intercedeth
that
we may
abide
in
that
Condition, wherein alone it
is
poffible for
us
fo
to
do:
Neither
is
the
Queftion, whether
Chine,
loofenefht,
profaneneffe,do
not
feparate be-
tween God and men, more or leffe;
but whether
Believers
fhall.not
be
pre
-
ferved from
filch
loofeneffe
&
profaneneffe,aswould make
a
totali
reparation
between God and
them; and
if
God intercedes,
as
is
added
in
the
coofe,
that
nothing
may
make
him an
enemy
to
us,
certainely
he muff
Intercede
that no
finne may
do
it;
For indeed,
finne
is
fomething
in this bufineffe;
and
this muff
be,
as
to the
keeping
us
from
it;
I
fuppofe
no
man thinks
any
thing
in
all
this
Difcourfe
of
Mr
Goodwin's,
to loofe
like
the
leaft
attempt
of
proofe,
that
Chrift
Both
not Intercede
for-
the
Perfeverance
of
Saints.
Neither bath
he
confidence enough pofitively
to
deny
it,
&
therefore
fpends
his
whole
Dif-
courfe hereabout
in evafions,
and
diverfions.
Let it be
directly denyed,
that
Chrift doth not
intend,
that
the Faith
of
Believers
may
not falle,
that
his Saints
may be preferved, and Saved; and we know what
we
have
to
apply
our
felves
unto:
And
if
the contrary cannot be proved, the
Saints
know, what they
have
to
truft unto, that they
may no longer leane on
that
which will yeild
them
no
fupportment.
If
this will
not be, let it
on
the
other
hand be
granted, that
he doth
fo
intercede;
for,
de unoquoq;
armare,
ant negare,
vermin
ell.
As
to
this then he proceeds
Secondly