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Dod.of
Pert:
of
Sts
its
u(efulnesto promote
Go /pelt-
Obedience.
C.X.4:
I.
is
Paid
over and
over an
hundred
times
,
yet I cannot
believe
it-3
becaufe
the
1^
5s
Do&rine openly
affirmeth
the
continuance
of
the
Love
of
God
to
them
that
are Godly, to be
effe
&ually
and eventually preventive
of
any fuch
prophane-
neffe,
as
is
inconfiftent
therewithall; and therefore
much
more vaine
is
that,
which he affirmeth in
the third
place,
3.
Namely,
that
the Doflrine
of
the
Perfeverance
of
the
Saints,
doth not
fó
much abfolutely
promife the Love
of
God
to
them
that
are
Godly,
as
it
promifeth
it
conditionally,
to
them
that
are
prophane,
in
cafe they
have
been Godly
: that is,
it
teacheth,
that
Godpromifeth the certain continuance
of
his
Love to
him,
that
is
Godly,
on
condition
he ceafe to be
fo, and
turne
prop
have;
Clauditejam rivoepueri
-
--
we
have enough
of
this already.
21Y
He
addeth
yet ,
Neither is certainty
of
reward,
in
every fence
or
kind,
4
more encouraging
unto
Atlion,
then
uncertainly
in
f
ome
kind:
to
promife
with
all
po
fible Affitrance, the
fame resiard
or
prize,
to
him,that(hall
not
rinne
in
the race,
which is promifed
to
him
that
(ball
runne,
it
not
more encouraging unto men,
thus
to
runne, then topromife
it
conditionally
upon
their running,
which
is a
promifing
ofit
with
uncertainty in
this
refpetl,
becaufe
it
is
uncertaine,whether
men Will
runne in the
faid
race,
or
no
and
confeyuently,
whether
they
(hall
receive
the
fail
priz.e
or
no,
upon
filch
a promife.
Vncertainty
of
rewardis then,
and in
filch cafes,
more encouraging unto
anion,
then certainty,
When the
certainty
of
obtaining
or
receiving
it,
is
fitfpended
upon
the
AFí,
not
when
it
is affured unto
men,whether
they
AEI
or no.
Anf.
r.
Perfwade your fervants, your labourers
if
you can,
of
that
great
encouragement
that
lyes
in
the the uncertainty
of
a
reward,
above
that
which may
be had from an
Affurance
thereof
:
We
are
not
as
yet
of
that
minder
And
yet
2.
We
do ndt
lay
the
only motive
unto
obedience, tendered by the
Do,
&rivewe
conteft for, on the certainty
of
reward
which
it
aflèrteth:
which
yet
is
fuch,
that without it
all
other
mutt
needs
be
of
little
purpofe:
but it bath
alto
other
advantagious
influences
into the
promotion ofHolinefle,
which
in
part have
been
infifted
on.
3.
It
feemeth, we'
fay
that
God promifeth
a
Reward
to
them
that
fball
not
runne a
Race, becaufewe maintaine,
that
he promifeth it
to
none,
but
thofe
who
do runne
in a
Race;
promifing
withail
to
give them
ftrength, power and
will,
that
they may
do
fo
to
the
end.
2.
For
the
dole,
which
amounteth to
this,
That
the certainty
of
reward,
.
when it
is
uncertaine
(for
fo
it
is
made
to
be when
it
is
fufpended on
A
&ions
trtexa,
ii?)
is.
more encouraging to
A
&ion ,
then certainty
of
reward
not
fo
fufpended;
I fhall
adde
only,(becaufe I know
not
indeed how
this
dif
courfe
hangeth
on
the
bufineffe
underConfideration,)that
we
neither
fufpend
the certainty
of
Reward
upon
our
Aftions,in
the
fence
intimated,neither do
we fay,
that
it
is
affured
to men,whetherthey
a&
or
no
but
fay,
that
the Re-
ward which
is
of
Grace,through the Unchangeable
Love
of
God,fhall be gi-
ven
to
them
that
a&
in Holineffe,&
through the
fame Love
(hall all Believers
be kept
to
fuch an
of
ìng
of
Holineffe,
as
God
thinketh
good
to
carry
them-
.
out unto, for the
fulfilling
of
all
the
good
pleafure
of
his Goodnefé
in
them,
and
making them meet
for
the
inheritance
ofhis
Saints
in
Light;
We do not
think,
mediums defigned
of
God
for the
Accomplifhment
ofany
End, are
filch
that
conditions
of
the End,
that
it
is
fufpended on
them
in
uncer-
tainty,
in
refpe&
of
the
Itfue
before its accompliflunent. Neither
do
we
grant,or
can
it
be
proved,
that
God afligneth
any medium for
the
accom-
plifhment
of
a
determinateEnd,(fuch
as
we
have.proved the
Salvation
of
all
Believers
tobe)
and
leave it in
fuck
a
Condition,as
that not
only
it
fhali
be
K
k
2
effe&ed