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C.XV.
The
fallacious
Ground
of
this Argument
of
M. G's.
336
20.
Could I onceimagine
that
M.
Goodwin
had
the
leaff
thought,
.that
indeed
there
was
any
thing
in
the Scripture, looking towards
his
intendment
in
the
producing
of
it, I
fhould
farther
manifef}
the
miffake
thereof;
To
play thus
with
the word
of
God,
is
a
liberty
we
dare not
make
ufe
ofyet.
Thirdly
he concludes That
realm
why
Believers are overcome
by
the
Luflings
of
the
flefh,
is
notbecaufethe Spirit
is not ffronger
than
theflefh,
but
becaufe men
have
more
will
to
harken
to
the Lufls
of
the
Flefb,
than
to the
Spirit.
Fortunam Priami cantaba,
&
nobile bellum.
This
is
the
ifl'ue
of
all
the former
fwelling Difcourfe, mens
l
nnes are
from
their
owne willes, and
not
becaufe
the
Spirit
is
not fironger than the
flefh;
And who
ever
doubted it,the
Conclufion you were
to prove,is,That
Believers
finne
with their
whole
willand
full
confent
of
their
wills, and
that
the
new
prin-
ciple
that
is
in
them, doth not
eanfe
their
wills
to decline
from
aäing
infìnne
to
the
jufl
efficacy
of
all theirflrength
and
vigour.
But
of
this
,;dB
yo7,
for thein6ntáa-
tion
in
that
expreffion
of
the
Will hearkening
to
the
lofts
of
the
flefly
and not
the lofting
of
the
spirit,
in a
fovereigne indifference
to both, and
a
liberty
for
the
performance
ofeither,
in
a
way exclufive
of
good,
or
vicious
habituall
Principles
of
operation
in
the
will
it
felfe, I (hall
not
now divert to the con-
fideration
of.
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224
What
elfe remaines in this
Se&ion,
either doth
not
concerne
the
bufùteffe
in hand,a's
the
fine
notions
of
the
Spirits retorne
to move
Believers
when
his mo-
tions have
been
rejected,
with
the manner,
whereof
according
to
his
conception,
muff beafterwards confidered
apart,
as
the
fall
of
David
into
adultery and
Norther;
if
there
be need to go forth
to the
confideration
of
his examples
and
inflances:
and therefore
I (hall
not longer
infift
upon it only
the
clofe
ofit
confiffing
of
an
inference made from force words
of
Peter
Martyr
deferves
confideration. uponDavid:finne
(faith
he)
Peter
Martyr,
makes
this
obferva-
tion,
That theSaints
themfelves being
once
fallen into
finne,
would
alwayes
re-
maine
in
the pollution
of
it,
did
notGod
bÿ
his
mighty Word
bring
them out
of
it;
i which
faying
of
Martyr
clearely a
fo
implyes
that
the
Saints
manytimes
finne
with
their
whole
wills
and
full
confents,becaufe
were any
part
of
their
wills bent againfl
the
commiting
o
f
the
fnne
at
the time,
when
it
is.
committed,
they would
que
f
#ion-
lef/e
return
to
themfelves
and
repent immediately
after
the heat
and
violence
ofthe
Loft
being
over;
by
reafon
of
the
fatisfailion that
bath
been
given thereun-
to.
Anf.
The
dole
infinuation
in Peter
Martyr's words,
of
the
Saints finning
with
their
whole
wills, and
the
Logicke
of
Mr
Goodwin's
inference from them
I
believe
is
very muchhidden
from
the Reader.
To
the
Theology
ofit,
I fay,,
that the
Saints aap)
,rrHvr,
do immediately
retorne toGod
by
Repentance,
(as
Peter
did)
upon
their
furprifalls
into
finne
; nor have
-they any
ref}
in
a
condition,
of
the
Eclipfe
of
the
countenance
of
God
from
them,
as
upon.
finne
it
is
alwayes
more
or
leffe;
of
Davids
particular
cafe, mention may af-
terwards
be made.
But the
proofe, that
they
finne
with their
whole
wills
and
full
con
fent
becaufe they
would continue
in
finne,
did
not the Lord
relieve
and
de
-.
liver
them
by
his word
and
Grace,
is
admirable;
I
would adventure
to
cat}
this Argument
into
as
many
fhapes,
as
it
is
tolerably capable
of,
had
I
the
leaf}
hope
to
caufe
it to
appeare
any way Argumentative;
we
deny then
that
Believers
have any
fuch
power habitually
refiding in them,
as
whereby
with-
out
any new
fupplyes
of
the Spirit or. concurrence ofaífuall Grace; they
can
effeaually and
eventually
recover themfelves
from any finne whatever;
Which
fupplyes
of
the
Spirit, and Grace, we
fay and
have proved are
freely
promifed