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The
fallacious
Ground
of
this
Argument
of
M.
G's.
e.Xv.
And Fourthly, We
fay
that
the intrufion
of
this vaine Hypothefs,
that
be-
lievers fhould
continue
fo,
under the
conlideration here
intimated
by you
of
finne, when
the
maine
of
the
Doctrine contended for ,
confiíls in
a
full
and
plaine deniall
that
they can, or
{hall
fall
under them
(
according
to
the im-
port
of
ioh.
3.9. immediately
to
be ìnfifted on
,
being preferved
by
the
Spi-
rit
and grace
of
him who
fo
workes
his
Law in
their hearts,that
they
(hall
ne-
ver depart from him)
is
the great
engine you have ufed
in
all
your attempts
againft
it,
being indeed
a meere begging
of
the thing
in
question.
Fifthly,
That
there
is
nothing
in this
Dodripe,in
the
leaf{,
fuited
to turne
afide
the
Saints
of
God
from
the
holy
Commandement,
but that
on
the contra-
ry, it
is
of
an
excellent
ufefulneffe,
and effeduall
influence for
the promotion
of
all
manner
of
Godlineflè
,
in
thofe
that
are truly Saints, howfoever any
man
may abufe
it,
(as
any
other
difcovery
of
the
grace
of
God) turningit in-
to
Lafcivioufnefe, hath been declared: what
ufe
bath
been made
of
the con-
trary
Doctrine
in
the
world,
we
have
hitherto had
experience; only
in
the
Pelagiana, Papifls,
Socinians,
and
Arminian,
and with what fruits
of
it they
have abounded, the Church
of
God
doth partly
know ;
What
it
is
like
to
bring forth,
being now tranflated into another
foile,
or rather, having wonne
over
to
it, men
fometimes
of
another
profeffion,
is
fomewhat, though
not al-
together, yet
in obeyance.
.
Let
us
then with
the
Apofile
, having ;proceeded thus. with
M.
Goodwin,
that
a
foundation may be the
better
laid, for the removall
of
what he farther
adds, proceed
to
confider
the
progreff
e
of
finne, and
to
remarke from thence
the
difference
that
is
betweene
Regenerate
and
Vnregenerate
men
in
their
finning.
The
fecond
thing
propofed
in
the
Apostles
difcourfe
of
the
Rife
and
pro
-
greffe
of
finne,
is
the generall
way
that
Lull proceedetlt in,
for thebringing
of
it
forth, and
that
is
Temptation:
every one
is tempted
of
his own
Lufl;
This
is
the
generall
way
that
Lufl
proceeds
in
,
for
the
production
of
aduail
finne
It
tempts',
and he
in whom
it
is,
is
tempted:
There
is
a Temptation
unto
fin
only,
and
a Temptation
unto
fin
by
fin
The
Grit is
no
finne
in
him
that
is
fo
temp-
ted;
our
Saviour
was fo
tempted;
he
was tempted
of
the
Diva],
Math. 4.
ti
He
was
in all
points tempted
like as
we
are, without
fn:
That
his
temptations wore
unto fin,
is
apparent
from
the
ftory
of
them;
but the
Prince
of
this
world.
cow.
ing
had'
in
him.
john
t4:
3o.
Found nothing in
him
to
Anfwer
and
dole
with
his
Temptations; and therefore though
he
was
tempted,
yet
was
he without
fin.
Now though
this
fort
of
temptations from
S.athan,
are
not
originally
our
frnnes
but
his,
yet
there
being tinder
in
our
foules
that
kindles
more
or
leffe,
in
and upon
every
iniedion
of
his
fiery
darts, there
being
some-
thing
in us
to meet
many,
if
not
all
of
his
Temptations, they prove
in force
meaCure
in
the
iffue,
to
be ours; Indeed Sathan fometimesventures upon us,
in
things wherein he bath doubtleffe fmall hope
of
any
concurrence, and
fo
feemes
rather to
aime
at our
dirquiet,
than
our
finnes:
as
in
thofe whom he
perplexes with
hard and
bla(phemous
thoughts
ofGod,
a
thing
fo
contradictory
to
the very
principles
not
of
Grace
only.
but
of
that
whereby
we
are men,
that
it
is
utterlgimpof{ìble
there
fhould
be
any
affent.of the
.foule
ithereutos
to
think ofGod,
as
God,
is
to
think
of him,
every thing
that
is Good,
Pare,
Great, Excellent,
incomprehensible
in all perfection:
Now at the
fame time,
to
have
any Apprehenfions
of
a
dire&
contradictory importance, the mind
of
man
is
not
capable.
Were
it not for the
unbeliefe caufeleffe
feares and
difcon-
tentnnts,
that
in
many
do
infuèopon Temptations ofthis nature,
which
are
confeguents,
and
not
effeas
of it,
Sathan might keepe this dart in
his
owne
forge,for
any-
mifcheife
he
is
like
to
doe with
it.
The
Apofile fßeakes
here{
343
4.33,