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CAP.
XIII.
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P.
XIII.
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The maintainers and propagators
of
the
feverall
Doltrines
underconteft, taken intp,confideration.
2.
The
neceffity
of
fo
doing
from M.G.
undertaking to
make
the comparifon. This
inquiry con-
fined
to
thofe
of
our own Nation.
3.
The chiefe
Affertors
of
this
Doftrine of
the Saints
Pcrfe.
veranee in this Nation
Once
it received any
oppofition, what
was
their
Miniftry ,and
what
Their
Lives.
q. M.G's plea in
this
cafe,
5.
The
heft
Objedion
againft his
Doftrine
by
him pro-
poled,
Second, and
Third.
6.
His Anfwers
to
thefe Objeftions
confidered.
Removed:
His
own
Word and
Teffimonyoffer'dágainft
the experienceofThoufands.
y. The Perlons
poinned to
by him, and commanded,
coufidered. 8. The principles
of
thole Perfons he oppofeth vindica.
ted.
9.
Of
the
Doftrine ofthe
Primitive Chriftians,
as
to
this head
of
Religion. Grounds of
mifiakein
reference
to their
judgements.
1o.
Thefrft
Reformersconfrait to
themfelves
in
their Doftrine of
the Saints Perfeverance,
n.
Of
the
influence
of
M.
Perkins
his judgement
on
the
propagation
of
the
Doftrine of
the Saints Perfeverance.
1
a.
Who the l'erfons
were
on
whom his judgement isfuppofed
to
have fuch an influence.
r
3.
The
content of
I
orraine
Chinches making void
thisfunnize.
14.
What
influence the
Doftrine of
the
Saints Perfevë-
raneehad into
the
holineffeof
its
Profeflors.
15.
Of
rite
srnworritine8
of
the Perféns who
in
this Nationhave
.ßrffertSd
the Dodrine of Apollafy: the fuitablenëNeof this Doftrine to
then
praftifes.
,
16.
Mr
G.
attempt
to rake
off
this charge. '17. How farre wens Doftrines
may
be
judged
by
their
lives.
18.
Mr G's Keafons
why Eptfcopahf., Arminianifed, the firft.
19.
Con
-
fideredand difproved.
20. Hisdifcord,&c.
a
1.
Generals Apoftafy
of
men
enterraine
the Ar-
miniantenents.
na.
The
clofe.
ß.
Sof
the
PerfeveranceofthebSaints
,,i.n,tand unto
the
llMiniflryof
the
Gofpell, and
the
obftru
&ion
pretended
to
be
laid
unto it
thereby,lt
may
be
fotnewhat conducing
and
of
Concernment
to
confider who
theiefons
are, and were,and what bath
been
and
is
the
prefence
of
God
with
them,
in
their
Miniftry who
have
been Affertors and Zealous maintainers
of
this
Do&rine:
And withall
who
they were, and
what
they have
been
in
their Miniftry, and the
Difpefati-
on
of
the
Word
committed
unto thern,who have
rifen
up
in
oppofition there-
unto;
How alto thole different Partyes have approved their
Profefflon
to
the
World,
and acquitted themfelves
in
their Generation
in
their
walking
with
God,
may
be
worth our Confideration; doubtleffe,
if
the Do&rine,
whofe
de-
claration
and defence
we
have thus far ingaged
in,
be
of fuch
a
pernicious
Tendency, as
is
pretended,
fo
deftru
&ive'to
Gofpell
Obedience,
and
fo
evi-
dently rendering
that great
Ordinance
of
the
Minifiry
.
ufelefe,
it
may be
tra-
ced
to
its
product
of
thefe
effe&s,
in
fotne meafure,
in
the
Lives, Converfati-
ons
and
Miniftry
of
thofe, who have moll zealoafly
efpoufed
it,moft
earneftly
contended
for it, and beenmoft given up
to
the
forme
and
mould
thereof. It
were
a
thing
every way miraculous
if
any
Roote
should
for the moil part
bring forth
frolic
difagreeing
to the nature
of
it.
y,
2.
ATafke
this
is,
(I
confeífe)
which were we
not
neceflitated
unto,
I could
easily
difpence with my
felfe
from ingaging
therein.
But
(Mr
Goodwin,having
voluntarily entred the
lift,
as
to
this
particular and inflated
a
comparifon,
between the Abbettors
of
the
feverall Do&rines
under Conteft,
(Chap.
9.
of
his
Booke,
(a matter
we Ihould
not have
expe&ed,
from
any
other
man)
it
could
not, but be thought
a
groffe
negle
&,
ofduty,
and
high ingratitude,
to-
wards thofegreat
6
.;3leffed
Sorsles,who
in former
and
latter
dayes,withih
b
e