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Gods
dealing
with
Believers
according
to the
Dot.
of
Perfev.
ftency
with,
the
latter
is
after Argued, let
this acording
to
the
Analogy
of
our
Do&rine
beinftituted.
rau
that
truly Believe
in
my
tonne
7efus
chrifi, and
are made
partakers
o
f
my
Holy
Spirit,
who
being heirs
of
the Promifes,
and
fo
have
a
Right
to
that
abundant
Confolation,
that
Toy
in believing,
which
I
am willing
all
of
you
fhould receive,
i
know
your
Feares, doubts, perplexityes.
and
Temptations,
your
failings,
finnes
and
back
Hidings,
and
what
fad
thoughts
on
the
account
of
the evil! ofyour
owne
hearts and
wayes
you
are
expofedto,
as
that
you
(hall
never
abide, nor
be
able
to
continue
with
me,
and
in
my
Love to the
end: let the feeble
knees
be
flrengthned
and
the hands
that
hang
down
be
lifted
up: behold
i
have ordained
goodworkes
for
you
to
walke
in,
as the way whereinyou
are
to walke
for
the
attainment
of
the
end ofyour
Faith
the
Salvation
of
your foules; And
to
quicken you
and
flirre
you
up
hereunto,
I
have provided
and
e
flablifhed
EfetluallOrdinances,
revealed
in
the
Word
of
my
Grace, whereuntoyou are to
attend, and in the
ufe
of
them according
to
my
mind,togrow
up
into
Holineffe,
in
all
manner
of
holy
converfation, Watch-
ing, Fighting, Refifting,Contending :with, and again
fl'
all
the
Spirituali
Enemy's
of
yourfoules;
And
as
for
me,
this
is
my
Covenant
with
you,
hat
my
Spirit which
gives
Efficacy
to
all
the meanes,
Ordinances
and
Advanta7es
of
Gofpell
Obedi-
ence,
which
i
have afforded unto
you,
by
whom
I
will fulfill
in
you
all
the
good-
pleafure
of
my
Goadneffe,
and
the
worke
ofFaith
with
Power,
fo
making
you meet
for
the Inheritance
of
the
Saints in Light,
and
Preferving
you
to
my
Hea
venly
Kingdom,
(hall
never
depart
from
you
o
that
you alfa having
my
Law
written
in
your hearts,fhall never utterly
and
wickedly
depart
me;And
forfnchlinnet
and
follies
as
you
fhall
be-
overtaken withall,Iwillgracioufly healeyour backslitlings
and
receiveyou
freely.
This
is
the
Language
of
the
Do&rine we maintaine,
which
is
not
(we
full
well
know)
obnoxious
to
any
Exceptions
or
Confequences
what
ever,
but
fuch
as
bold and prejudiced men,
for the
'countenance
of
their
vaine conceits
and
opinions,
will
venture at
any
time
to
impofe and fatten on
the
molt pretious
Truths
ofthe
Gofpell;
That
God
fhould
fay
to
Believers,
as
is
impofed
on
him,
,
fall
into whatfinnes
they
will, or
abominations
they can
, yet
he
will have
them
believe,
that
by
an irrefiflible
hand,
he
will
necetate
them to
Perfevere;
that
is,
in and
under
their
Apoflacy,
(which
is
evidently
implyed in their fall-
ing into
finnes
and abominations
in
the
manner
infifted
on)
is
a
ridiculous
fi-
¿lion,
to
the
imagination
whereofthe
leali colour
is
not fupplied,
by
the
Do-
¿trine intended
to
be traduced thereby.
Secondly, for the enfuing
Exhortations,
Promifes,
and
Threatnings,
as
farre
as
they are really
Evangelical!,
whofe
ufe
and tendency
is
argued
to
be incon-
fìftent
with
the
Do&rine before propofed,
I
have formerly manifefted.
What
is
their proper
ufe
and
efficacy
in
refpeft
of
Believers, and
their
confiftency
with the
truth
we
maintaine, apprehended
as
it
is
indeed
,
and
not vifarded
with ugly and
dreadfullappeaices,will
I
prefume
fcarcely
be called
in
que-
Ilion
by any, who having received
a Kingdome
that
cannot
be
fhaken
, doe
know what it
is
to
ferve
God
acceptably
with
reverence
and
Godly
feare; It
is
true, they are
made
unto,
and havetheir
ufe in reference
unto
them
that
Be-
lieve,
and
(hall
Perfevere
therein
:
but
they are not
"given
unto
them,
as
meti
affured
of
their Perfeverance;
but
as
men
called
to
the
ufe
of
meanes for
the
eftablifhing
of
their
foules in
the
wayes
of
obedience;
They
are
not
in
the
me-
thodofthe
Gofpell, irrationally
happed
on
fuch
intimations
of
unchangeable
Love,
or
propofed
under
fuch wild
Conditionalls,
and
Ssappof
Lions,
as
here by
our Author;
but
annexed
to
the
Appointment
of
thofe
wayes
of
Grace
and
Peace,whichGod callshisSaints
unto,being
Puked
to
worke
upon
the
new
na-
ture
werewith they
areindued,
as
fpreading it
felfe
over
all
the
facultyes
of
their
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