410 / 504
C.
XV.
Chriftenterchangeth
not
members
with
the Divell.
354 conclufion,
with
part of
the dignity
of
Believers, whole perlons are
all the
members
of
Chriff,perfwades
them
from the
finne
of
Fornication;
That
they
may
so much
as
fall
into
that
finne, he
doth not
here
intimate. That
níen not
only in refpe&
ofthemfelves,
and
their
principles
of
finne,
and
proneneffe
unto it'; within,
with the prevalency
of
Temptations, butalfo
eventually,
notwithftanding
any
regard
or
refpe&
to
other external'
prohibting
caufes,
may
fall
into
all
the
finnes from
which
they are
dehorted,
Mr
Goodwin
hath
not
proved
as
yet,
nor
thall
I
live,
to
fee
him
do
it.
Socondly, for
a
man
to
make
himfelfe
the
member
of
an harlot,
is
no
more
but
to
commit.Fornication: which
whether it be Mr
Goodwin's
Judgement
or
no, that
none can fall
into or
be furprifed
with, but
he
is .ipfo
fa
fo
cut
of
from
the
Body
of
(Thrift
thereby,
I
know
not; Taking
in
the
confideration
of
what
was fpoken before, concerning
the manner
of
Regenerate
perlons finning,
with what
thall be
farther argued, I
muff profefle, I
dare
not
fay
fo
;
In
the
meane
time,
it
is
pun&ually
denied,
that
Believers can fall
into, or
live
in
a
conrfe
of
Whotedome
and Adultery, and without
fach
a
courfe
,
they
ceafe
not
according
to
M.
Goodwin's
fence
ofthefe words, to
be
members.
of
CF.
riff,
nor
doe they otherwife become members
of
the
Divell.
There
is
nothing
herethen
that
intimates
fuch an
interchange
in the
leaff.
Thirdly,
for M.
Goodwin'
criticifineupon the word
gee;:
it
is
hardly worth
taking notice
of.
For
Firff,
if
by taking, there be meant
taking
away,
the
fence muff
be
that
they
are
firff taken
away
from
being
members
of
Ghrift
(
theword
expreffing
a
time
paft in
that
tendency)
and then, made
members
of
an Harlot
:
Which
Firft,
is
not
fuited
to
the
mind
of
M. Goodwin,
who endeavours
to
prove
their
ceafing
to
bemembers
ofChriff,
by becoming members
of
an
Harlots the ef-
ficient caufe
of
their
ceafing
to
be joyned
to
Chri(t,
confuting in
their
being
joyned with
an
Harlot.
And Secondly,
deffroyes
the
whole fcope
of
the
A-
polies
reafoning
in
the
place, from
the
great
uriworthinefie
of
fuch
a
way,
or
prà
&ice, as
making
the
members
ofCh.
ri.fl,
to be
the
member"
of
an Harlot,
be-
caufenone
fhould to
be made, but thofe
who
had
firft
ceafed
to
be members
ofChrift; and
fo his
Aflèrtion inflead
of
an effe&uall perfwafive ,
thould upon
the matter
beentangled
in a
contradi
&ion.
to
it
felfe.
¢
44
And Secondly,
as
there
is
nothing
in
the
place
to
inforce
that
fence
of
the
word, fo
there
is
nothing in
the
word,
to
impofe
that
fence
upon
the
place;
When
our
Saviour fpeaks
to
his
Difciples
bike
g.
3.
µn,dti".107E
Ñs
rtui nJ$",
he
doth not
bid them
take
nothing
away
for their journey,
but
take
nothing
with
them. And fo Marke
6.6. Where
his
command
is,
that
tnJin
and
in
that
of.Math:4.6.
When the Divell urged
to
our
Saviour,
AT X0,4
d"Pi
CI*
he did
not intimate that the
Angelis
thould
take him
away in
their hands,
but
fupport
him
from
hurt:
when Jefus Ioh:11.41.
its
ams,01.
<4
á
"w,
he
did
not
take
away
his eyes
out
of
his
head,
and
cliff
them upward, no more
then the
Angell did
his
hand,
when
Tipç
xtieá
As
74
épa
"a
V,
Rev:
so.5.
or
the
Apoftles
their
voyce,when
Tipa"
pnet.»
e,34
ró"
sear, AF's
4.24.
Nor doth
Chrifi command us
to
take
away his yóake,
in
that
heavenly
word ofhis,
"Afar:
7Ú"
boys"
pus
Év'
iw
e.
Math: 11.29. fo
that
here
is
little
help left to
this fence
impofedon
the
place.
under confideration,from
the importance
ofthe
word,
&
fo
confcquently
nos
the
leaff
countenance given
to that
horrible interchange
of
members
between
Chrift and
the Divell,
which
is
afí'erted
as
an ufuall and
frequent thing.
4.45.
What
he addeth
in
the
dole of
the
Se&ion,
is
no
lef e
confiderable than
the
beginning
of
it;
for (faith
he)
if
it
be no
difbononr to
Chr,
to take
in
fach as
have
been
members
ofthe
Divell,
why
fhould
it
be
any
difparagement
to
him
to
re-
jet`f