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to.
Do
&.
of
Sts
Pere
no hinderance
to
the
workof
the
Miniary,
266
not
but
inf(f
upon
the former obfervation;
That
notwithftanding
Mr
Good.
wins
pretence
of
proving
,
and arguing for the Doctrine
hemaintaines,
yet
upon
the matter,
he bath not
any
thing
to
fay,
in
the carrying
on
of
that
de-
fgne, but
inffantly
falls
to
his
old work
of
railing objections,
in
their
very
Petting
up prepared
to
be calf downe,
(for the
moff
part)
which with
all
his
might helaboureth
to
remove.
The ffrefe
of
the whole, (as farre
as we
are concerned
in
it)
Beth
on the
Minor, which
is
thus
farther attempted
to
be made good:
The Mini
r
Pro-
pofition
is
Demonffrated thus,
The
Doílrine
which
rendreth
the Labour
and
Faithfirineffe
ofa
Minifier
in
preng
fuch
Exhortations, Threatnings, and
Promi-
fes,
which
tend
to
theprefervation
of
the
Saints, in Faithand
holineffe to
the
end,
ufeleffè,
rendreth the
Mini
ry
of
the
Gofpell, as
farre
as
it
concerneth the encos.
ragement,
or
inabling
of
the Saints
to
Perfevere,
needleffe
and
vaine
: but guilty
of
fuch
a
tendency as
this,
is the
commonly
received Doctrine
of
Perfeverance:
Ergo.
Anf.
This
labour might
have been faved, and both thefe
Syllogifines
very
eafily
reduced
to
one: but then another
Teeming
Argument
(as
we
(hall find
afterwards)
infeffed
on, would have
been
prevented. Our trade
in fuch
cafes
as this
is
by
weight,
and not
by
number:
the
lidinor
then,
is
frill
to
be
confir-
med;
which he
laboureth
thus
to
doe.
The
common
Doctrine
of
Perfeverance,
requireth
and
commandeth
all
Saints
or
true
Believers,
to be
fully
perfwaded,
and
this
with
the
greatej
and
moll
indubita-
ble
certainty
of
Faith,
that
there
is
an
abfolute
and utter impartibility,
either
ofa
totall,or
fnall
def
aeon
of
their
faith: that
though
they fliould
fall
into ten thug-
fand
enormous
and
mofí
abominable
f
nnes,
and
lye
wallowing
in
them, like a
fivíne
in
the mire,
yet they
fhould remaine
all
the
while
in an
eflate
of
Grace
and that
God
will
by
a
flrong
hand
of
irrefrflible grace, bring them
of
from their
f
nnes,tby
Repentance,
before they dye:
but the Doctrine which requireth and
commandeth
all this, and
much
more
of
like import,
to
be
confidently
believed
by
true
Believers,
rendreth the
prefsingofall
Exhortations, Threatning,
Promifes
upon
them
in
or-
cier
to
prevaile with
them, or make them
carefull
to
Perfevere,
bootleffé
andtone-
ceflary..
Ergo.
4
to,
Anf,
t.
What
weight
M.
Goodwin,
(with
all
thole
with whom
as
to
his
undertaking under
confideration He
is
in
fellowfhip)doth
lay
upon
this Argu.
ment,
is
known
to
all.
The
whole foundation
of
what
is
afterwards at
large
infiffed
on, for
the
effablifhment,of it
being laid upon
the
proofe
of
the
Minor
Propofition
formerly denied,
here laid downe;
It
will
early
be
granted,
that
it
was
incumbent on
him
to
make fure worke
here,and not
Pe
leave
any
thing
liable
to
any juff Exception. An
errour, or
a
miftake
in
the
foundation,
is
not
eafely
recoverable;
All
that
is
afterwards heaped up, beareth
it
(elfe
on
a
(up
pofetion
of
the
Truth
of
what
is
here delivered.
If
this faile
in
the
leafy
,
we
may (pare our
Labour,
as
to
any
farther confideration
of
what followeth;
Now the
amine
of
the
proofe here
infifted
on lieth
in
the Declaration
of
that
which
he calleth,
the Coition
Doarine
of
Perfeverance,
and
concerning
this
he informeth
his
Reader.
T.
That
it
commandeth
all
Saints
to
he
fully
perfwaded,
and that
with the
gseatefl
and
moss
indubitable certainty
of
Faith,
that
there
is
an
abfolute
and
ut-
ter
impoifibility
either
ofa
totall,or
final/
defeslionoftheirFaith.
Anf.
a.
What
is
the intendment
,of
there Aggravating expreffions
of;
[fully
perfwaded,greateil
and
moll
indubitable certainty
of Faith]
I know
not.
Will it
pleafe
you,
if
it fhould require them
to
be
perfwaded,
but
not
fully
perfwaded
Believe
it,
but
with
little and
dubitable cetainty
of
Faith,
oruncer-
tainty rather? Full
perfwafion,
greate
fl certainty,with
out
doubting
or
fiaggering,
are