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D
o.`
.
of
Per
".
afcribes
not
to
God acceptanceof
Perfons.
C.
X/1.4:8,9.
fame
fl
ate:
Tome
are
in a
fiate
of' Death
andfinne, others
of
Life
and Grace,be-
265
ing
tranflated
from
the
one
to the other
,
having
a
Title to
the Promife
of
Mercy
in
Chrift.
(2.)
And
chiefly,
as
there
is
a
twofold
juflification,
of
the
Perfon,
and
of
the
Fact,
and
the
one
,
may be
without the other,
fo
there
is
a
twofold condemnation
or
dif-
approbation,
ofthe
Fall,
and
of
the
Perfon
5
As
to the particular
dif
-
approbation
of
God,
in
refpe&
of
any
finfnll
Ac`t,
it
is
the
fame
in
reference
unto
all
Perfons
,
Believers
and Unbelievers:
As
to their
Perfons,there
are
in
the Gofpell, other ingredients
to the
judgement
of
them,
betide
particular
Fans,
or
A&s,
in
anfwer
to the
Law,
or
the
rule
of
Righte-
oufneffe,
vic.
Faith and
Repentance,
which
alter
the
cafe
of
the
Perfon, even
before the judgement
feat
of
God:
To
fuppofe
the
Saints
to
fall
into the
fame
firmes
with
other men,
in
the
fame
manner,
and
to
continue
in
them, without
Faith and
Repentance
, is
to
hegge
the thing
in
Queflion.
Suppofe
them
to
have
(what
we
affirme
God hath promifed) thofe
conditions
of
Evangelical'
mercie,
and
M.
Goodwin
himfelfe
,
will
grant it
no acceptance
of
Perfons,
to
deale
otherwife with
them,
then with others, whohave committed like
fiunes
with them,
in whom thofe conditions are
not wrought or found
;
that
is,
he
that
Believethiball
be
Saved,
he
that
Believerh
not
'hall
be
Damned.
This
is
all
we
fay
in this
thing:
but
of
the
difference
between
Believers
and unbelievers
in their
fining ,
we
(hall
fpeake afterwards
at large
,
to the
full
removal'
of
this and
another Obje
&ion.
For the prefent
this
(hall
fuffice
,
though
'Belie-
,vers
fall,
or
may
fall
into the famefinnes with other men, yet they
fall
not in-
to them,
in
the
fame
manner
with them, and they have
a
reliefe
provided
,
to
prevent the deadly malignity
of
finne, which thofe who believe
not ,
have no
interefl
in,
no right unto.
Mr
Goodwins
fecond Argument
is,
that
which
of
all
others
in
this
cafe
,
hee
ss:
8.
feemeth
to
lay
mofa
weight upon: and which he purfueth at large
in 57
Pa-
ges,
and
as
many
Se
&ions,
treating
in
it concerning the
Minifiry
of
the
Gofpell,
and the
ufefulneffe
of
the Exhortations, Threatnings, and Promifes thereof.
For
an
entrance into the confideration
of
it,
I
mull
needs
fay
Non
venit ex
pharetris
ilia
fagitta
tuffs.
For
befides
that
M.
Goodwin
bath
taker( very
little
paines in
the improvement
of
it (confidering how it
was
provided
to
his
hand
by the
Remonfirants
at the
Synod
of
Dort,
and
that
which he
bath done farther,
confifling
in a
meere
ufelefle
and
needleffe
fluffing
of
it
,
with fundry
Notions
taken out
of
their
firfl
Argunient and
fifth
(De
modo
converfionis)
ofthe
man-
ner
of
the
Spirits operation
in
and upon
the Soule,
in its firfl converfion
to
God)
it
was
the old
Fong
of
the Pelagianand
Semi
- Pelagian,
in
their dealing
with Auüine,Fukjentius,Hilarius,
Profper,
by them at large confuted,
renewed
by
Cali
allio,
and
Erafmus,
againfl
Luther,
after it
had been lifted
and
reje&ed
by
the
more learned
Schoolemen
in
former
ages:
What
ever it be,
and
how e-
ver
it
is
now come
to hand,
being
taught to
fpeake
our Language,
and
that
in
the
heft
fashion,
the
confideration
of
it
muff
not
be
declined. And thus it
is
propófed.
If
the
common
Dolirine
of
Perfeverance,
rendreth
Min
f
ry
of
the
Gofpel
,
fo
4.
9'
faire
as
it
concerneth
t%e
Perfeverance
o
fthe
Saints,
valise,
impertinent,
and
void,
then is
it
not
a
Dollrine
>of
God,
but
of
men,
and
confequently
, that
which
oppo-
feth
it
is, the
truth:
But certaine
it
is,
that
the
Paid
Doctrine, is
of
this
uns
an
tendency
and
import;
Ergo.
The
firfl
part
of
the
confequent
of
the Naive
is
granted.
The
Workof
the
Minifiry,
being
for
the ediftcation
of
the
body
o
f
Chri
/l,
and
the perfecting
of
the
Saints,
(Ephef.4.12,r3:)
that whichfruflrateth the
End whereunto
of
aria
himfelfe it
is
defigned
,
can be no
Truth
of
his.
Of
the farther
inference, That
the Doctrine which
oppofeth'it,
or
is
fet
up
in
oppo-
fition
to
it,
is the
Truth,
more
will
be fpoken afterwards. For the prefent
I
can-
M in
not