318 / 504
C.X[L4
t,
;,
Do.`t'of
Perf
o(
Sta
its ufefulnes
to
promote
Gofp.Obedience.
262
rail
things4vhetherall.
conditionall. 44. What condition
in
the
Promife made
to
Paul
A5.27.
45.
Farther
of
that Promife, its infallibility and
meanes
of
Accomplilhment.
46.The
fame con
-
frderations farther profecuted. 47. 48.
Of
Promifes
of
Perfeveranoe,and what relations to per.
forme in conjun &ion.
49.
M.G.
oppofition hereunto.
5o. Promifes
and protefiations
in
conjunftion
1
Cor.10.12,1a.
difcuffed. An abfolute
Promife
of
Perfeverance
therein evinced,
51-
Phil.1.12,13. to
the
fame
purpofe confidered. M.
G.
Interpretation
of
that
place
prépofed
removed.
52. lieb.
6.4,5,9, to the
fame
purpofe infifledon, 53. Of the
eonfiflcncy
ni
Threat-
nings
with
the Promifis
of
Perfeverance. 54. M.G.
oppofition hereunto:
55.
Confidered and
removed.
What
Promifes
of
Perfeverance are aflerted
how
abfolnte and infruftrable.
Few
of
Hell
and puniíhmenr twofold. The
beate
intended to
be ingenerated
by
threatnings, nor in-
confiflent
with
the
Affurance given by promifes. 56. Five Confiderations about the
ufe
of
Threatnings: the firft
&c. 57, Hipocrites
how
threatned for
Apofta
fy:
of
the End and
Aimeof
God
in
Threatnings.
58.
Of theproper
End and
Efficacy
of
Threatnings, with
reference
unto
true
Believers. 59.
Feare
of
Hell
andpunifhment, how
farre
a
principle
of
Obedience in the
Saints.
6o.
Of
Noahs
feäre
feb.1
I.
7.
61. M.G's farther arguings for the
Efficacy
of
the
Feare
of
Hell,
unto
Obedience in
the
Saints; propofed, confidered,removed. 62.
r
loh.
4.18.
confr-
dered.
6;.
Of
the Obedience
of
Saints
to their
heavenly
Father, compared to the obedienceof
Children to
their naturall
Parents:
M.
G's
monfrous
conception about this thing. 64.
How
Feare orLove, and
in
what
fence
are principles
of
Obedience.
That which
is
done
from Feare,
not
donewillingly, norchearfully. 65.
How
Feare, and whatfeare hath torment. 66. Of
the
nature and
ufe
of
Promifes. Clofe
of
the Anfwer to thisArgument.
Twill
be
needleflè
to
ufe many words
unto the
Difcourfe
of
the
S:
1.
C
f]ksl4i
firff
Se
&ion; feeing
it
will
not
in
the
leaft prejudice our
Caufe
in
hand, to
leave
Mr
Godwin
in
full
poffeflìon
of
all
the
Glory
of
the
Rethoricke
thereof. For although
I
cannot
dole
with him
in
theExpofition given
of
that
expreflion
I
Tim.
6.t6.Godinhabiteth
T
ight.inaccefble,fome thing
in
my weake apprehenfion,tnuch more
glorious
&
divine being
comprifed therein,then what it
is
here turned
afide
unto;Neither
am I in
the
leaft convinced
of
the truth
Tb
snrnJ$mue
of
the former
Difcourfe,
in
the
clofe
of
the whole,
afferting
a
deliverance
to
be obtained from
our
thoughts
of
the
Do&rine
of
the
defi&lion
of
the
saints,
which he
intitnateth to
be, that it
is
anti-
evangelicall, tormenting,
and
bringingfonles
under
bondage,
by
a
narrow,
and
unprejudicate fearch
into
it,
finding my
felfe
every day more
and more
confirmed
in
thoughts
of
that
kind concerning
it,
by my
engage -
ment into
fuch an
enquiry (which hath
been
obferved
in
this
prefent
Dif-
courfe,
as
farce
as
my
weakeneffe will
permit;
yet
it
being not
in
the
leaft
.11rgumentative,but for
the
whole frame
and intendment
of
it
Commune
exor-
dium,
and
that
which
any
man
of
any opinion
in
the world might make
ufe
of,
I
(hall
not
infift
upon
it.
4. a.
His fecond
seilion containeth
his firft Argument,
drawne forth
in
the
de-
fence
of
his
Do
&rine
of
the
pof
bility
(as hecalleth
it,
but
indeed
what
it
is,
we have
heard)
of
the
defe&lion
of
Believers;
Ofthis,
I prefume
he inten
ded
no more
ufe
but(as
a
forlorne,)
to
begin
a
light
Skirmifh
withdverfaries,
ordering
it
toretreat
to
his
maine Body advancing,
after, or defperately
ca-
lling it
away,
to abate the
Edge
of
his
Combatants
Weapons,
it
is
fo weake
and
feeble;
arid
therefore
I
(hall
be very briefe in the confederation
of
it
thus
then
he
propofeth it.
That Doilrine which retidreth
God
free from
the unrighteoref
ieffe
which
the
Scripture calleth the refpefling
of
perfons
of
Brien,
is a DoPlrine
of
perfa
con
-
fflence
with
the Scripture,
and
the
truth,
The
Doctrine
which
teacheth the
poJbility
of
the Saints declining,
and
this
unto
death
is
a
DoCirine
of
this
import:
Ergo.
0.3.
Anf.
a.
The
firft propofition muff
be fuppofed
Vniverfall,
or'
elfe the
whole will quickly
be
manifefied
to
beunconclufve.
If
it be
only
leidefi'nite,
and
fo
equivalent(as it
Beth)
to
a
particular,the
conclufion is
from
all
particu-
lars, and
of
no
force,
as
Mr
Goodwin
well
knoweth.
Take
it
univerfally, and
I
fay
it
is
evidently
falfe,
and might
eafily
be difproved
by
innumerable In-
fiances.