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A ccepting
of
Perfons
notaferibed
to God
by
the
Dat.of
Sts
Perf.C:XII.
fiances.
Not
that
any
errour or
falfeho
od
can
indeed
give
God the
Glory
of
263
anyone
of
his
Attributes;
but
that
they
may
be fitted and fuited for
fucha
fervice,
were not their throates cat,
and their
mouthes
fiopt,
by
the
Lies
that
are
in
them,which Mr
Goodwin's
Doëtrine
is
no
lefle
lyable
to
then any
other;
and not at
all
exempted from
that
Condition,
by its
Teeming
fubferviency
unto
Gods
Aprofopolepfïa,
Doth
not the Do&rine
of
7u
liftcation
by
Worker
even
in
the molt rigid
fence
of
it, according
to the tenor
of
the old Covenant,
abfolutely
render God
free from the Unrighteoufneffe
of
Accepting
ofPerfens?
And yet
for-all
that,
it
hath
not one
jot
the more
of Truth
in
it,
nor
is
it
the
leffe Anti-evangel/call
.
This foundation then
being
removed, what ever
is
built
upon
it
mole
ruitfud.Neither
is
it
in
any meafure
reftored,
or laid
a
news'
by
the reafon
ofit
given by Mr
G.
via.
That the scripture
affirmeth
in
fnndry
places
that
God
it
no
accepter
o
fperfons:
for
he
that
thall hence conclude
,
that
what ever Do&rine
affirmed),
direly,
or
by
confequence,
that
God
is
no
Accepter
ofperfons,
what
ever
other
abomination
it
is
evidently
deeming
with
all,
is
yet true, and according
to
the
minde
of
God,
(hall
have leave
notwithftanding
the
antiquated
statute
of
our
Vniverfity
againft
it,
to
god
and reade
Logicke
at
Stamford,
On
this account
do
but
provide
that
a
Do-
ítrine
be not guilty
of
any
one
crime, and you may conclude
that
it
is
guilty
of
none.
For
inftance,
That
Do&rine which impeacheth
not the
omniprefence
of
the Diety,is true
& according
to the
Scripture,for
the
Scripture
aboundeth
with
cleareTeftimonyes
of
the
Pretence
ofGod
in
all places.Now the Do&rine
of
the
Ubiquity
of
the humane nature
of
Chrifr,
doth
no
way impeach
the
omnipresence
of
the piety; therefore it
is
true
and according
to
Scripture.
I
might fuperfedeall
further
confiderations
ofthis Argument, having
ren-
dered it altogether
ufelefle, and
unferviceable,
in
this warfare, by
breaking
itsright
legge,
or rather
crutch,
whereon
it
leaned:
but
fomething alto may
be
added
to the
Minor, becaufe
of
its
refle&ion
in
the clofé
of
its
proofe
upon
the
Do&rine we maintaine
,
intimating
an
inconfiftency
of
it,
with
that
Excellency
of
God
fpoken
of,
namely,
that
he
is
no
Accepter
of
Per
-
tons.
.
Profopolepfia,
or
Accepting
of
Perfons, is
an
evill in
Judgment,
when he who
4.
4.
is to determine
in
caufes
of
righteoufnejfe,
hath
refpeél
to perfonall
things,
that
còncerue
not
the
merit
of
the
Caufe
in
hand, andjudgeth
accordingly.
This
pro-
perly
can
haveno
place
in
God,as
to
any bellowing
of
free
Grace,
Mercy; or.
Pardon; There
is
Roome
made for it,only when
the
things
that
are beflowed,
or wrought, by
it,
are
filch,
as
in
Juftice are
due;
it
being
an
Iniquity
folely
ancrdire
&ly'oppôfed todifiributive
7ufiice,that
rendrèth to
every one
accor-
Exod:z32,3
ding
to
what
is
Righteous
and due.
That
with God
there
be no
Accepting
6,7,8,9.
ofPerfons
there
inno more required, but
this,
that
he
appoint and
determine
Iob.3
i.34'
equall Punifhtnents,
to
equall faults, and give equall
Rewards,
to
equal!
de-
fervings.
If
he will
difpofe
of
his pardoning Mercy,
and
free
Grace,
to
fome in
Chrift, not
to
others,
who
(hall fay
unto
him what
do.fi
thou
?
May he
not
de,
what
he
will
with
his
own
e?
So
he
giveth
a
peny
to
him
that
laboureth
all
day,
he
maygive
a
pent'
alfo
to
him
that
worketh
but
one
houre.Now
fuppofe
that
Mr
G's
Do'Jrine
render
pod
free from this,
(or rather
chargeth
him
not with
it,)
yet
if
withall iticalleth
his
Truth,
Righteoufneffe,Faithfulnefle,Oath,and'
Immutabill'
into
queftion,
fhall
it
palle for
a
Truth,
or be embraced
ever
the
foon
r
?
But
th
fling
of
this
Argument lieth
in
theTaile, or
clofe
of
it,
in
the
Re-
§.
5.
fle
&ion infifted
on
upon the
common
DoElrine
of
Perfeverance as
it
is
called:
viz,
thatit
teacheth God
to
be
an
accepter
of
Perfons:
This
is
Mr
Goodwin's
way
ofArguing
all along;
When
at
any
time be bath propofed
a
proofe
of
the