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-the
eon!ftency
of
eftettuall Grace,
&
Gbapell
Exhortations.
C.
X
IT
ration.
Yea
as
Gods
Providentiallconcurrence with men and determination
oftheir
wills,to
all
their
A
&ions
as
A&ions
is
the Principle
of
all
their naturali
;,
ibertyfo
hisGreciourConcurrence
with
thê,or
operations
in
the
as
unto
Spiri=
.
tua11
Effe&s,working
in
th
to
will,is
thePrinciple
of
all
their trueSpirituah
berty:when
theSon makes
us
free
then are
we
free
indeed;theReward
then
is
pro-
pofed
to
a
underfi
'ri
lenlightned,a
will
quickned&madefree
by grace
to
ftirrethê ù
anions fuitableto them
who
are
in e
ation
of
fo
bountiful/
a
clofe
óf
thetr.Oliedience: (which anions are
y
u
ht
in them
by
the
Spirit
of
God,
whofe
fruits
they
are)
and this
to
very g
urpofe,
in
the
hearts
of
all
that
know what
it
is
to walke
with God and
to
erve
him
in
the
midit
of
Temptations
unleffe they
are under the power
of
fome
fuchparticu-
lar errour;
as
turnes away their
eyes
from believing
the
Truth.
Secondly,
The
oppofition here
pretended between
a Phyficall
neee
rating,
and
a
Morali inducement,for
the producing
of
the
fame
effe&,is
in
plain
teams
intended between the
Efrcacy.of
Gods
internal
lgraces
and the ufe
of
External/
exhortations
and
motives;
IfGod
give
an
Internall Principle, or
Spiritual)
Ha-
bit,
fitting for inclining
to
fpirituall
a
&ions
and duties
if
he
followes
the
work
fo
begunne in
us,
(who yet
of
our
felves can
doe
nothing,
nor
arefnfci-
ent
to
thinita
good
thought
)
with continuall
fupplies
of
his
Spirit
and Grace,
working
daily in
us
according
to
the
exceeding greatneife
of
his
power
,
the
things
that
are
well pleafing in
his
fight, then, though he worke upon
us ,
as
Creatures endued
with Reafon, Underftandings,
Wills,
and
Affe&ions, re=
ceiving glory from
us
according
to
theNature
he hath endued
us
withall all
Exhortations and Ineouragements
to
Obedience required
at our
hands, are
vaine and
foolifh;
Now
becaufe we
think
this
to be the very
Wifdome
of
Gods
and the
oppofition made
unto it, to be
a
meere invention
of
Satan,
to mag-
nify
corrupted nature,
and
decry all
the
Efficacy
of
the Grace
of
the new Co-
venant,
we
mutt have fotnething
betides,
and beyond the naked
Affertion
of
our
Author,
to
caufe us
once
to
believe
it.
Thirdly, The
great
Execution
that
is made
by
Moral!
inducements folely,
without
any
internally
efficacious
grace,in
the
way
of
GofpellObedience
is
of-
ten
fuppofed,
but not
once
attempted to
be put upon the proofe
or
Demon-
ftration;
It
!hall
then
fuffice
to
deny
that any
perfwafrons, outward motives
or
inducements whatever, are able
of
themfelves
to
raife,
ingage, and
carry
out the
will
unto
A
&ion, fo
that
any good fpirituall
A&ion
fhould be
brought
forth
on
that
account, without
the
effe
luall
influence,
and
Phyficall
opera-
tion ofinternall
grace; And
M.
Goodwin
is
left
to
prove
it,
together
with
fuch
other
Affertions
derogatory to the
free
Grace
of
God
, Dogmatically
impofed
upon
his
Reader
in this
Chapter, whereof
Come
have been already remarked
andothers
may
in
due time.
The
refidue
of
this
Se&ion
(
the
r
3th
)
fpent
to
prove that
Eternal! Life
is
given
as
aRersard
to
Perfeverance;
having already
manifefted the
full confiftency
of
the
Propofition,
in
a
Gofpell acceptation
of
the word
Reward,
with whatever
we teach
of
the
Perfeverance
of
the
Saints,
I fuppofe my felfe
inconcerned
in
:
And
therefore
paffing
by the
triumphant
conclufion
of
this
Argument afl'ertingan Abfolutepower
in
then
toexhibite
or
decline from
Obedience,
I !hall
goe
Oh
to
that
,
which
in
my apprehenfion,
is
of
more importance,
and will
give
occafion
to
a
Difconrfe,
I
hope,
not un-
ufefull
or unprofitable
to the
Reader;,
I
fhall
therefore
of
igne
it
a
peculiar
placeand
Chapter
to
it felfe.
T
t
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