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The
fallacious
Ground
of
this
Argument
of
M. G's.
Cs'
XV
Fourthly
we fay
that true
Believers
cannot
be
laid
to
walke
according
to 347
the
flefh5
to
do the
Workes
of
the
flcfh,
to do
the. Lulls and
defines
of
the
ftefb,
which
the
Holy
Ghoft fo cautions them againft, which
as
Mr
Goodwin
ob-
ferves
are none
of
them charged
upon
true
Believers,
but
only fuck
perlons
as
are
enemyes
of
God,
and
Children
of
wrath;
fo
that
thofe
expi:effìons
hold:
out
to
Believers
only what they ought to avoid
in
the
ufe
of
the meaneswhich
God
gracioully affords
them, and do not
difcover any thing
of
the
will
of
God,
that
he
will fuffer
them, contrary
to
his
many Faithful' Promifes
to
fall
into
them.
And
fo
the
clofe
of
this Difcourfe
is
contrary
to
the beginning;
M.
Goodwin
granting
that true
Believers
cannot
fall
into
thefe
finnes,
but
only
fuch as
are
enemies
toGod;
and yet he bath
no way
to
prove
that
true
Be-
lievers may ceafe
to
be
fo,
but
becaufe
they
may fall
into thefe$nnes,
which
that
they may do, he here eminently denyes.
Wherefore
he
adds
by
finning
out
ofmalice
they
mean
finning
with deliberation, with
plotting,
4.3
7,,
an contriving the methods
and
meanes
of
their
finning, finning
againfl fudge
-
ment,agàinfi'the ditJates ofconfcience(andwhat
they
jhonld
meane
bylining
out
of
malice but
finning
upon
fach
tearmes as thefe
I
underfland not)
certain
it
is
that
true
Believers may
fofinne
out
of
malice,
or
at
leafs
fuch
as were
,
true
Believers
before
fuch
fining,
and this
ourAdverfaries them
felves
confeffé.
Anf.
All this falles heavy
on the fhoulders,(as
it
is
fuppofed)
of
poore Da.
vid,
and
yet
we
think
it
evident,
that
God
tooke
not his
holy
Spirit
from him,
but that
hi
s
Covenant
continued with
him,
ordered
in all
things
andlitre,
and
that
finne
hadnot
dominion over hint.
The
reafons
of
this perfwafion
of
ours
concerning
him, fhall
farther
be
infifted on, when we
come
to the
confide-
ratio
n
of
his cafe
in
particular,
in
the
meane time
I
confefle
the dreadfnll
falls
offomeof
the
Saints
ofGod,
are
rather
to
be
bewailed
than aggravated; and
the
riches
of
Gods Grace
in
their recovery,
to
be
admired than
fearcht
into:
yet
we fay,
Firft,
That
no one Believer
whatever
in
the world,
upon any
temptation
whatever, did
fall
into
any
finne
of
malice,
that
is,
accompayned with any
hatred
of
God,
or
defpite
of
his
Grace,
or
whole delight
of
his will in
the
fin,
whereunto
he was
by temptation for
a
feafon
captivated,& though they may
fall
into
fin,
againft
their judgements
&
di&ates
of
their
confciences,as
every
fin
whatever,
that
they have,or
may pofíibly
have knowledge
ofor
acquain-
tance with,
in
their
owne
hearts
and
waves,
is
Yet this Both
notmake them
to
time
out
of
malice;
for
that
would leave no diftin
&ion
between
finnes
of
infirmity whereinto men are surprifed by
Temptation,
and
of
Malice.
Even
finnes
of
infirmity being
in
general' and particular
direly
contrary to the
di-
elates
of
their inlightned,
fantifyed
judgements
& confciences.
Secondly, for finning with deliberation, plotting, and contriving
the methods
and
*canes
of
finning, the proofe whereof,
that
fo
they may do
,
will
lÿ as
was
before obferved
,
on the
infrance
of David)!
fay
it
being the will
of
God
for
ends
and
purpofes
knowne
to
his
infinite
Wifdome, to give
us, as
to
his
fall,
his
darke
fide,
and
his
finne
to the
full, with
the Temptations wherewith
he
was
at
firft
furprifed, and
afterward
violently hurryed upon carnal'
rea-
foningsand
confiderations
of
the ftate whereinto
he had caft himfelfe,
havint
'alibis
old friend and counfellour
as
to
any fhines
of
his
countenance
for
a
feafon,
not
acquainting
us
at
all
with the frame, and working and ftriving
of
his
Spirit,
in,
and
under
that
fall,
I (hall
not dare
to draw
his cafe
into
a
Rule,
that what
he then did
a Believer
now
may
do,judgeiug
ofhis
frame
in
doing
of
it,
only by what
is
expreft.
That
Believers may
have
morofam
cogitationem,
or deliberation upon
force
finites,
whereunto they are
tempted;
upon
the
ftrength ofindwelling
finne,
which
may poffibly
fo
over come and
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