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C.XIV.
Eefricacy
of
Grace and
Exhortation to
Perfeverance confluent,
318
affured
from
my
will and
command
given
unto you in
that
behalfe,
yea
according
to
the infallible
word
ofTruth
which you have
from
me,
that
you cannot po(ìbly,
no
not
by
all
the
mófi
horridfnns
and
abominable
prallices,that
you
fhall,o r
can
commit
fall
away
either totally
or
finallyfromyourFaith ;for
in the midit
of
your
foulefl'
allions
&courf
es
there remaines a
feed in
you
which is
fufcient
to
make you
true Believers,&
to preferve
you
front
falling
away
finally,
that
it
is impofibleyou
fhould
dye
inyour
f
noes
;you
that
know
â
are aff
xred,that
I
will
by
an
irretll
ible
hand
worfe
Perfeverance
inyou,&
confeque,ntly
that
you
are
out
of
all. danger
of
condemnation,
and
that
Heaven
andSalvation
belong unto
you,and
are as
good
as
yours already,
fo that nothing
but
giving
of
thanker
appertaines
to
you which
alp
you
know
that
I
will,
do
what
you
will in the
meane
time,
necef
f
tate
you unto;
you
'fay
that
are
fully and
throughly perfwaded
and
pop
ffed with
the
truth
of
ail
thefe
things,
I
earnefily charge, admonifb,
exhort,
and
befeech,
that
yee take heed
toyour
felves,that
yee continue
in
the
Faith, that
there
be
not
at
any
time
an
evil/ heart
of
unbeliefe
in
any to
depart
from
the
Living
God,
that
you_
fall not
fromyour
owne
ftedfaftnefe, yea
I
declare
and profefe
untoyou
that
ifyou(hall
draw
back,
my
foule
(hall
have
no
pleafure
in
you,
that
if
yoes(hall
deny me,
I
will
deny
you,
that
if
you
be
again
overcome
of
the lofts
of
theworld, and
be
intanglesl
here
with,thatyour
latter
endfhall
be worfe
than
your
beginning,
that
ifyou
fsall
turne away,allyour
formerRighteoufnes
fhall
not
be
remembred,butyou
fhall
dye
in
your
f
nnes,
and
fatter
the
vengeance
of
Eternal/fire
.
On
the other
handifyoufhall
continue
to
the end,
my
Promife
is,that
you
fiall
be
Saved; therefore
firive
to
enter
in
at
the
ftraite
gate, quit
yourfelves
like men, labour
for
the meat
that
indureth
unto
Everfalling
Life, and
be
not
floathfull, but
followers
of
them,
who
through
Faithand
Patience
inherit
the Promifes.
He
that fhall
duly weigh
and
confider,
what a
fencelejfe
and
indeedridiculous incongruity there is,
between
theft Exhor-
tations,
Adjuratións, 7hreatnings,
and
latter
Promifes,
and
thofe
Declarations,
Applications,
andformer
Promifes dóubtleff
e
willconfefe
that
either the
one,
or
the
other
of
them
are not
from
God,
or according
to
themind
of
God.
4
s
Auf
The
incongruity
of
this
&ion,
with the
Doarine
it
is
framed
a-
gainft,
is
fo
eafily
manifefted
that it
will
not
much concerne
us,
to
confider
the
incongruity
that the
feverall
parts
ofit
have one with
an
other.
For
Firft the whole Foundation
of
this
fanatic
4
Fabrick,
is
ridiculous
in
it
felfe,
and
ridiculouflyimpofedon
the Doctrine
of
Perfeverance.
For
.whereas
it
fayes
not
that
all Saints'
have any comfortable
Afurance
of
their Perfeverance
.and
fo
may by allGofpell wayes
whatever,
by
Promifes, and Threatnings,
be
ftirred
up
to
the
ufe
of
thofe
meanes
whereby Perfeverance
is
wrought ,
and
Affurance
obtain'd,
fo
it flies
that
no one Saint
in
the world, ever had,
can have, or
was
taught
to
exile& his Perfeverance
or
the
leaft fence,
or Ain-
ranee
ofit
under
fuch an
uncouth fuppofition,
as
falling
into
&
continuing
in
fins
&Abominations
;the
Promifes they have
to
Aire
the of
their infeparable
abode with
God to the end,are,that
he will write
his Law
in their
hearts,&
put
his
Feare
in
their inward
parts;
that
they
(hall
never
departfrom hire;
and
they
(hail
be kept up
thereto,
by
the
ufe
of
meanes
fuitable
as
appointedofGod
for the attaining
of
the
end
propofed,being
kept
by
the
power
ofGod,but
through
Faith
unto
Salvation.
God
Both
not
call
(nor
doth the
Dort:
of
Perfeverance
of
the
Saints,
'or
of
the
ftability and Unchangeableneffe
of
his
Promifes
in
Chriff toBelievers
afllert
it)any
toBelieve
that
they
fhall
never
fall away from
him, what
[inner
and
Rebellions
fo
ever
they
fall
into, neither bath
he promi-
fed any
fuch
things
unto
the,but
only
that
hewill through
his
Grace preferve
them
in
the
ufe
of
meanes from
fuels
Rebellions,
as
are inconfiftent
with
his
Love and
free
acceptation through Chrift according
to
the
Tenor ofthe
Co-
venant
of
Grace;fo
that
inlead ofthe
firft
part
of
this
fi
&ion,whofeinc0nf
ffency