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God
and Sathan
enterchangenot Children
mutually.
C.
XV.
:from
finneye
became
the
fervant
sofKighteorsfnefe.&c.
2.-That
there
is
no
re=
353
all
efficacy
of
Grace
that
will
certainely
fulfill in Believers
the
good pleafure
of
Gods Goodneffe, and
bring forth the
fruits
of
an
abiding
1-lolineffe,
but
what
mutt
needs
deprive them
in whom
it
is
of
their liberty
:
and fuitably
hereunto, 3.That God having through
Chrifl made
his Saints
Spiritually free;
frô
fin
uutoRighteoufnes,fo
that
with
the.utmoff liberty
that they
are capable
ofasCreatures,they
(hall furely.do
good,cann'ot by hisSpirit continue them in
that condition,
infallibly
without the
deflruE1ion
of
their liberty.
4.That the
Sp
rituali operation
of
God in,& with
the
wills
of
men,induceth
a
necefitati-
on
as
to their
manner
ofoperation
,that
they mull
at
on
that
account,
as
ne-
ceffary,
&
not
as
free
Agents: with
fuch
other
the
like-
fuppofals,which
are
fo
many grog
figments
whereof
M.G. shall
be
able
to
.prove no
one to
Eternity;
For
the removeall then
of
all
the
fine
words
here tendered out
of
our
way,
it
may
fuffice
to tell their
Author,
that
he
who
is
niade
Redempi
ion to
his
Saints,
that
lets
them free from
their bondage to
finne,
by
his
Spirit, which is
allwayes accompanied with
Liberty,and
makes
them willing, ready, and free
to
Righteoufneffe,and
Holineffe in
the day
of
his,
power towards them,whole
effe&uall
Grace enlargeth and improves
all
their
facultyes, in
their operati-
ons,with
the choicefl attendences
as
to the
manner
their
of
working,can,and
doth,
by, in,
and
with the perfe& exercife
of
their liberty,
keepe them
to
himfelfe, in
their union,
and communion with him for ever.
That
this
pre-
tended liberty
unto
finne,
is
a
bondage, from
which
Chrifi
frees
his
Saints,
neither
is
any
thing that
can be
imagined more derogatory to
the
glory
of
his
Grace, than
to
affirme,
that
he
cannot
keepe
thofe committed to him,
in-
fallibly,
to
the end, without depriving them
of
the liberty
which
they
have
alone through him.
Of
Phyficallnecejfztation
enough hath been
a
fpoken
be-
fore;
Judas was
never
a
member
of
the
Body
ofChriff,.
r
of
f
in
the ac-
ceptation whereof
we fpeake.
By
the body
of
the.Apoffles,
is
intended only
their
numher,ofwhich
7udm
(though
he
was
never
ofihat
body whereof they
were members)
was
one.
Farther the
wickedneffe
of
this Apprehenfion,
that
Chrifl fhould
loofe any
Q:
q4,
of
thofe who are
true,and
living members
of
his
Myfticall body,is
aggravated
upon
the
accovnt
of
that
{late
and condition, whereinto
he parts with
them.
They
being thereby made
members
ofSathan,
and
his
Kingdome; God and
the Divell
fo
interchanging Children
to the great
difhonour and reproach
of
,his
name
:
to this
M. Goodwin
replyes,
in
the
28.
Se
&ion.
For the interchange
of
members between Chrifi
and Sathan,the
Scripture prefen-
teth
it ,as
a
thing
polble,
yea as
frequent and ordinary
,
know
ye not
(
faith
the
Apo
ile)
that
your
Bodyes
are
the
members
of
chrifl?
Shall
I
then take the
mem-
bers
o
f
Chris`],
and
make
them the
members
of
an harlot; in
the
originali
it
is
,
'Aga;
6-3
xe,sx
aere,,
&c.
i.
e.
taking
away the members
of
chrifi,
frall
r
make them,
6.c.
meaning
that
true
Believers
who only
are
the
members
ofChrifl
di
(relate themfelves
to
hint,
ceafe to
be
members
of
his
body, who/fl they
live in a
courfe
of
whoredome
and
Adultery,
and
make themfelves members
of
another
far
different relation , viz.
of
thofe
harlots
with
whom they
willfully
commit
finne;
and
confequently,
in
fuch.
a
fence
of
the Divell.
Anf.
Firft, for the
fence
of
that
place
ofthe
Apoflle,
t
Cor. 6.
r
5:
As
fare
as
it relates
to the
merit
of
the
caufe in
hand,
I
fhall
have
occafion.to
fpeake
unto it,
at
large hereafter,&
fo
{hall
not anticipate
my
Idle,
or Reader; For
the
prefent
i
deny
that
there
is
the
leaff
mention made
of
any
interchange
of
members between
drift
and
the
Devill,much
leffe
ofatiy
-fuch
thing
as
frequent
and ordinary
;
'Tis
true the
Apoftle
layes
that
he
that
is
joyned
to an harlot
makes
his
members
the
members
of
an
harlot, and on
that
contideration,
and
7
z
conelufion,