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Confiftzncy
of
Prom.
of
Perf. &
Exhortations to the
ufe ofrrmeanes.C.X11a
rail or
Perfwafive,only which
communicates no ftrength
or
power,I
(hall
need ?83
no more,
but
to reject
it with the
fame
facility, wherewith
'tis impofed
on
us,
The
fimilitude
of
one
walking, and another running,
wherewith
the
inconfiften
.
cÿ
ofa
Reall
efficient
work
of
Grace, with
perfwaGons
fo
farre
as
that
they
Ihould
be
Paid
to.cooperate
to
the producing
of
the
fame
effeec
,
cloth-not in
the
!Gaff,
illuftratewhat 'tis intended
to
let
off;
for though one
ru
nne
;
and
another'goe foftly, as
fuppofe one carrying a little
loa
fe, another
a
great
bur=
then
of
meat for
a
fupper,and
both
going
to the
fame place,Wby may
not
they
be laid
to
cooperate
to the providing
of
the
faille
fupper Muff
all
Agents
that
cooperate
to
the producing
of
fame
effect;
be
together
in
one place
?
You
may
as Toone
bring Heaven and Hell
together
as
prove
it:
And why
muff
re-
all
efficiency,
be compared tòrunning, and Perfwafion
tofoft
walking?
As
though onewere fuppofed
to
carry on
the
work faller
than the other
when
we
fay
only,
That
in
the
one
there
is
a
diftin&
power exerted
from
what
is
in
the
other;
which
that
it
may
be done, might beproved by
a
thoufand in-
fiances,
and illuffratedby
as
many fimilitudes,
if
any
pleafure were
taken
tó
abound
in
causâ
facili; God or
man
then cooperate
in refpe&
of
the
tendency
of
their working unto the event,not
in refpe&
of
the
kinds
of
their
efficiency.
Of
the feventh
section
(whereon
we
than not
need long
to
infift) which
in
4:
39,
the
entrance frames
an
Obje
&ion, and
pretends
an Anfwer
to
it, there are
three parts
In
the
firff
he
(ayes
that
we affirme,
That though the
will
be'necef-
f
fated
by
God,
yet
'tis
free
in
her
Eletlion,
which
how
it
may be he
underfland.
not; But
if
this
were
all
the
inconvenience
that
Mr
G.
could
not underftand
'how
to
falve
the Operation
of
God in
man,
with
the Liberty
of
his
will,
fee
-
ing
as
wife
me n
as
himfelfe,
have herein
Beene
content
to
Captivate
their
Vn
derfiandings
to
the
Obedience
of
Faith, it were
not
much
to
be (tumbled
at;
but
the
truth
is
the
Chimera whole
nature he
profeffeth himfelfe
unacquain-
ted
withal!,
is
created
in
his
owne imagination, where 'tis
eafy
for every
man
to
frame
fuch
notions
as
neither
himfelfe
no any
elfe
can bring
to
a
confiftency with Reafòn
or Truth: Of
Neceffitating the
Will
to
Eleellion,
wee
have had
occafion
more than
once
already
to treat,
and
!hall
not burthen the
Reader with
needlefhe
Repetitions.
In the
fecond divifion
of
theseetion,he
gives
you
his
judgement
ofthe
man-
4'
40
ner
of
the'worke of God upon the
foule
unto the
doing
of that
which
is
good,
and the
effe&
produced thereby;
Whereofthe
one,
as
was
Lid'
before
confifts
in perfwafions,
which he
fayes are thus
farre
irrefi
flible,
that
they
who
are
to
be
perfwaded cannot
hinder but
that
Godmay perfwade
them
or
exhort
them, though
he
prevaile not
with
them;
Which doubtleffe
is
a
notable Exaltation
of
his
Grace.
Thus
Mr
Goodwin
workes
irrefiffibly
with one
or,other,
perhaps every
day;
And
the
efel
of
this
perfwafion is
(that
is,
when
it
is
effe&wall,)
that
im-
preffion which
it
leaves
upon
the
foede to
the
things
whereunto
it
is
perfwaded: As
the
cafe
is
in
the dealing
of
men
one with
an
other,
for my
part,
I fee
no
reafon
why
our
Author fhould fo
often,
fo
heedfully,deliver
his
Judgment
concerning this
thing,
efpecially
without the
leaft
attempt
of
any Scriptural!
proofe, or endeavour
to
anfwer thofe innumerable cleare and
expreffe
places
of
Scripture,
which
he
knowes
are
every
Where
and
on all occafions produced
and
mulled on prove
a
real
efficient
a
&ing
of
God
in
and witNthe
wills
of
men for
the producing, working and
accomplishing
that
which
is
good in
a
way
diftin&
from
that ofperfwafon,
which
contributes no
real]
ftrength
to
the
Perlon perfwaded,
concurring only
Metaphorically
in
the
producing
of
the
effe&.
Let this
at
laff
then
fuffice;
we are abundantly cony inced
of
his
denial!
ofthe
worke
of
Gods Grace
in
the
salvation
of
foules.
In
the third
place
wehave
a
Rhethoricall flowrifli
over
that
which heehath
4.41.
beenlaying
out
his
ftrength againft
all this while being
a
metre
repetition
of
0
o
2
what,