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t
lohn
3.9` Argued
and
Vindicated.
C.
XV.
That
this
is
in
it
felfe
PO
e
there
being no
fuch
Antipathie
in any
to
finne;
369
but that
they
may
eafily
fall
into
it, yea
and
With
great
difficulty
and labour
-
do
reffraine from
it,
as
the
Apoffle
argueth at large
Korn.
7:
So
is
it
alto
flat-
ly
contradi
&ory
to the
words themfelves:
the
Apoffle faith,
He
that
is
borne
of
God
fnneth
not, cannot
finite; He
can
finne
(faith
this Gloffe)
though
difficultly;
now
he
that
can
finne
difficultly,
can
finne:
can
finne,
and cannot finne,areflat-
ly
contradi&ory;
He
cannot
then
finne
at all, the
finne
that
is
intended
in
the
place,
of
whom
it
is
Paid
he
cannot
finne,
Thus
we
have cleared the
firft
Propofition
in
the words,
both
as
to
the
sub
-
jeEt,
every one
that
is
borne
of
God;
and the
Predicate,fanneth not cannotfinne,
Which
lift
exprefíion
,
taken
in its
only proper and
moff.ufuall fignification,
denoteth
an Impoífibility
ofthe
event,&
plainely confirmeth
in
direct
termes
the
pofition we infili
on from the words.
Mr
Goodwin
knoweth not
well,
Of
i
am able
to gather
any
thing
of
his
65à
thoughts,
from
his
exprefíìons to
the Argument
in
hand;)
what to
fay
to this
Affertion
of
the
Apofiles.
The
Argument,
he
intendeth
to
deale withall from
the
place he
cafieth into
this forme,
He
that
fanneth not neither
can
finne,
can-
not
fall
away, whofòever is
borne
of
God
fanneth not,
neither
con
finite
Ergo,
Comming
to the
confideration
of
that
expref
ion
[cannot
fin]
he findeth
out,
as
he
fuppofeth, fonr feverall acceptations
in
the
Scripture,
of
the word
[cannot]
Sz
giveth
us
an
account
of
his
thoughts upon
the
confideration
ofthê,
that
in
refpe&
ofthefe
fences
both
Propofition
sate
falfe.
Nów one
of
the
Pro=
pofitions
being
the
expreffe
language
&
literall
Expreffion
of
the
Holy Ghofi,
not
varyed
in
the leaff,there
is
no way
to
relieve himfelfe,from being
thought
and conceiv
d
to
give the
lye
to
the
Bleffed
Spirit
of
God
,
by flatly
deny=
ing what he peremptorily
affirmeth
,
but
only
by denying the word
{
cannot] to
betaken
in
this place, in any
of
the
fences
before mentioned;
Doth
he
then
fixe
on
this
courfe for
his
own
extrication
Doth
he
givein
another
fence
ofthe
word,
which
he accepts and grants
that
in
that
fence
the
affirmation
ofthe
Holy Ghofi
may be
true
¿
Not
in
the
leaf[?
Yea
plainly
for one
of
the
fences
he fuppofeth
himfelfto
have found
but
of
the
word [can-
not] viz.
That
it
is Paid
of
men,
they
cannot
do
fuch
or
fuch
a
thing, becaufe
of
their
averfeneffé
andindifpofition
to
ir, which he exemplifyeth
in
that
of
Chrifieto
the
Pharifees John
8.43.
He
afterwards
more than
intimateth,
that
this
is
the
fence,
wherein
the
words
cannot
finne are
in
this place
to
be
taken.
Se&:
34.
So
that
he will
not
allow the
Holy Ghofi
to
fpeake
the
truth
,
al-
though
he
take
his
words in
what
fence he pleafeth. Yea
and adding
a
fifth
fence,
SeCt.3
t.
Which
isall
it feemeth he could
find
out, (for
we
heare not
of
any
more)
he
denyeth
that
to be
the
meaning
of
the place,
and
fo
ihutteth up
the
mind
of
theHolyGhofi
into
Tome
ofthofe
fignificatiós,whereinif
the words
be taken (he
faith)
they
are felfe.
The
Difcourfe
of
Mr
Goodwin
Se&.
28,
29,3o.(being taken
up with the Confederation
of
the various
fignifications
of
the
word
[cannot]
and
his
inferences
thereon;taking it
in
this place,
this way
or that
way,then
it
is
fo
or
fo,fhewing himfelfe very fkilfull
at
fencing &
war-
ding offthe
force
of
our
Arguments,
as
perhaps
his
thoughts ofhimfelfe were
noon
á
review
of
what
he had done.) we
are
not
concerned
in.
And
though
it
were
very
eafy
to
mnifeff
that
in
the diflribution of.
his.inffances, for
the
exemplification
of the
feverall fignifications which
in
part
he feigneth,
and
faftneth upon
the
words,
,
he bath
been
overtaken with
many groffe
iniffakes,
forne
of
them
occationed by
other corrupt
principles
than thofe
now under confideration,
yet
none
of
the
fences infifted
On
by
him,
coming
really up
to
the
intendment
of
the
Holy Ghofi
withont
any
difadvantage
to our
caufe in
hand,being
wholly
inconcerned therein,we may
paffe
Izy
that
whole
Harangue.
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