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C.XV.
The
fallacious
Ground
of
this Argument
of
M. G's.
3
5o
men cannot be faved,
wondring what
Mr
Goodwin
according
to
his
princi-
ples intends by
the addition
to
the
Text
of
Kam.
8.
r.
unlefle
it
be
,
that
no
man
ftands
in need
of
Repentance,
unleffe he
have
caft
off
all
Faith and inte-
r&
in
God;
a
molt Anti
-
evangelical]
affertion) and yet
not
commit
fuch
fins,
as
whereby
their Faith
muff needs
be
wholly loft.
Fourthly, There's
a
twofold
Right
and
Title
to the
Kingdome
of
God;
a
Right
and
Title
by the
profeffion
of
a
trueFaith to the
externall
Kingdo
me
of
God,
in
regard
of
its
outward Adminiftration
,
and
a,
Right and
Title
to
the
Eternal]
Kingdome
of
God
by
the
poffeffonofa
true
Faith in Chrift
:
The
former,
as
it
is
taken
for
jus
in
re,
believers may
lode
for
a
feafon
;
though
they
may
not
in
refpeet
of
a
remote,
original], fundamental'
Root
which
a-
bides; the
latter
they never
lode,
nor forfeite
:
We
fay
alto
that
repentance
for
finne
being a thing promifed
ofGod,for
thofe
that
come
to
him
in
Chrift,
upon
the
account
ofthe
engagement
of
his
Grace,
for the Perfeverance
of
Be-
lievers;
All
fuch fallers
into
finne,fhall certainly
return to
the
Lord
by
Repen-
tance,
who
heales
their
back
-
flidings, which Mr
Goodwin
bath not
been able
to
difprove;
Of
whole Arguments
,
and
his
endeavours to vindicate them
from exceptions, this
is
the
chiefe.
$51
39.
But yet
there
being two
or
three
things, that
M.
Goodwin
is
pleafed
to
adde
to
what
went
before,
as
obje&ions agamft
his
do&rine in general],
though
not of
this
laft Arguments concernment,
any
more than
of
any
others
he
makes
isle
of becaufe
there
are
in
them Confiderations
of
good advantage
to
the Truth
in
hand,
I
(hall
a
little
inlift
upon
them, before
I
proceed with
my
intended
difcourfe.
The
Firft
is,that
the
Dotlrine
of
the
Saints
Apoflacy,
mnaimeth
or
difinera-
4. 40
breth the
Body
of
Chrifl,
and
brings
in,
an uncouth
and
unfeemely
interchange
of
members between
chrifi
and
the
Soule;
which
howfoever flighted by
M.
Good-
win,
is
a
plea
not
of
the
leaft
importance
, in
the cafe
in
hand.
The
body
of
Chrift
intended,
is
that
myl'íicall
and fpirituall,
not
that
Political]
.and-vifible;
His body in
refpe&
of
the
reali union
of
every
member
of
it
;
unto
him
as
the
head, defcribed
by the
Apoftle
in
its
Relation unto
him.
E;phef.
4.0 5,16.
It
grower
up
unto
hint,
in
all thìngr,
which is the
head,
even
Chrifl,,
from
whom
the
whole
body
fitly
joyned
together,
and
compael ed, by
that
which
every
joynt fuppli-
eth
according
to
the ejfelluall
working
in the
meafure
of
every
part,
maketh
in-
creafe
of
the
body
unto the edifying
ofit
felfe
in
Love:
So'alfo
Collof.
2.
íg.
the
Body we
intend, whereof
Chrift
is
the
Head,
is
that
,
not
-only in a
Political]
fence,
as
the fupreamegovernonr
of
it,
but
in
a
Spiritual], according
to
the
Analogy of
an
Head
Naturall,from
whence life,
& all influence
of
it unto the
Members do
flows
Ofthis
body,
fome are
in
their
Spirits 'already
confumma-
ted, and made
perfe&
in Heaven
,
fome are
as
yet
purfuing their Warfare
in-
all
parts
of
the
World,
prefiìng
forward
to the
marke
of
the
high-calling fet
before them: Now
that
any
member
of
his
Body,
bone
of
the
bone,
flefh
of the
flefh
of
Chrif,
given him
to makeup
his
fulneffe,
and
myfticall per£eftion,
joynted unto
him, walhed
in his
bloud,
and lovedby
him
, according to the
Love and care
of
a head
to
its members, fhould
be
plucked
off,
to
be call
in-
ao-the fire,
and after it
bath
fo clofely
and vitally been admitted into the par-
ticipation
of
his fulneffe
and increafe, being united
to
him
,
become
a
child
of
the
Divell,
an
Enemy
to
him,and
his
fometimes fellowmembers,fo
as
to
hate
his head,
and
to
be hated
of
his
head
(when
yet no
man ever
yet hated
his
own
flefh) this
we
fuppofe
no way
to
anfwer
that
inexpreflibly intenfe Love,which
the Lord
Jefus
beares towards
his'
members, and
to
be-
exceedingly
deroga-
tory to
his
honour and Glory, in
reference with
his
dealing
to
Sathan,.the
great
enemy
of
his
Kingdome. But
to
this
M.
Goodwin
Anfwers.
rirfi,