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Objections
againf$
the
Do
&r.of
Perky.
removed.
C.
X.4:
A4.
the
Truth
we
have
under Confideration, much
infifled on by
Mr
Goodwin,
Cap:
g.
As
r.
That
aperfwafion
of
the certaine continuance
o
f
the
Love
of
God to any one,
is a ready way
to
make them
careleffè,
negligent,
and
to
give
up
tbemfelves
to
all
manner
of
abominations.
But
what
Vipers,
snakes,
and
Adders,
do
fuch men
fuppofe the
Saints
of
God
to be,
that their
new
nature,
their HeavenlyPrinciples
(for
what the
fiefh
in
them,is prone
unto,
we
now confider
not,)
.fhguld
conclude,
that
it
iegood to
finne,that
Grace may
abound;that,becaufe
GodLoves them with
an Everlafling
Love,
therefore they
will
hate
him
with
a
perpetuall
hatred:
that,becaufe he
will affuredly
give them Grace toferve
him with
reverence
&
Godly
fear, there-
fore
they will defpife him,
and trample on
all
his
Goodneffe; becaufehe will
never forfake them,
that
they
will
no
more
abide with him:
What
is
in
the
inner man, what
is
in
the
new
Creature, what
is
in
the nature
of
any Grace,
wherewith
they are indowed,that
is
apt, or
inclinable
to
make
fuch
hellith
Conclufions?
If
we heare
of
any
fuch
thing
among
the
Sonnes
amen,
if
we
fee
a
Child,
or
a
fervant
refolving
to
be profligate, wicked,
f
ubborne, pro-
digall,
becaufe
his
Father
,
or
Matter
is
kind, loving,
and
will
not difinherit
him, or put
him away; we
looke upon
him as
a
monfter
in
nature, and
think
that
it
would
be
good
fervice
to
the
interefl
of
mankind totake
him
off
from the
face
of
earth ;
And yet fuch monfters
are
all
the
Saints
of
God
fuppofed
to be
,
who, if
their
Father
once give them
the
leafl
Afhürance
of
the
Continuance
of
his
Love
,
they prefently refolve
to
doe
him
all
the dithonour
,
defpite, and
milcheife
they can :
I
appeale
to
all
the experience
of
all
the
Saints in
theworld, whether
,
if
any fuch
thought
at
any
time arife
in
them,
that
they may
continue
infinite,
becaufe
Grace
bath
abounded,
that
they may
livcin
all
filth, and folly, becaufe
God
bath
promifed never
to
forfake
them,
not turne
away
his
Love from
them,
they
doe
not
looke
upon it,
as an hellifh
abide
of
the
Love
of
God,which
they labour to crucifie,no
leffe,
then
any
other worke
of
the
flefb
whatfoever;
Prefuppofe indeed the
Saints
of
God
to
be Dogges and fwine, wholly fenfuall
and unregenerate, that
is,no
Saints,
and our Doctrine to
be fuch,
that God
will Love
thetas,
and
Cave
them continuing
in
that ítate,
wherein they
are,
and
you make
a
bed
for
Iniquity
to
ftretch it
felfe
upon;But
fuppofe
that
we
teach
that
the
wrath
of
God
will
certainlyy
come upon
the
Children
o
fdifobedience,
that
he
that
Believeth
not,
fhall
be
damned, and
that
God
will
keepe
his
owne
by
his
power
through
Faith
unto
Salvation,
and
that
in
,
and
by
the
ufe
of
7neanes,
they
(hall
certainly be preferved
to the end:
and
the
mouth ofin-
iquity
will
Ike
flopped.
2.
They
fay
it
takes
away
that thong
corbe
and
bridle,
which ought
to be
Inept
in the
mouth
of
the
flefh, to
keepe
it
from
running
headlong
into
fn
and
folly,
namely the
feare
of
Hell
and
punifhment,whiih
alone
bath
an
influence upon
it,
to
bring
it
to
fubjetlion, and
under
obedience.
But
now,
if
there be nothing
in
the world,that
is
of
de
for
the
mortification
and crucifying
of
the
flefh ,
and the lulls thereof,
but it
receives
im-
provement
by
this Do
&rine, this
critnination
muff
ofnecefiìty
vani(h
into no-
thing.
1.
Then,
it
tells
that
the
fieth,
and
all
the
deeds thereof,
are
to
be cruci-
fyed and (laine,
God
having ordained
goodworkes
for
us towalke
in,
That
for
the
workes
of
the
fieth the
wrath
of
God
comes upon
the Children
of
di
fobedience;
&
if
any fay,let
see
continue
in
fine
becaufe we
are
not under the Law,or the con-
demning
power
o
f
itfor
finne,but
under Grace,
it
cries
out,
God
for bid.
Rom 6.
15,16. And
faith,
this
is
Argument enough, and .,Proofefnfflcient,.thätfinne
H
h
2,
235
§
14.