430 / 504
C.
XV.
a
lohn
3,
g.
Argued:
374
upon
as
the
carafe
of
an
.
effec`l,
but only
in
refpect
of.
the
prefent
_being
or
residence
of
it.
The
Reafon why
the-
foule
moveth
to
day,
is not
becaufe
it
will
move, or
all
the
body to
morrow
or``beeaufe
it
is
on
the
body to
day,
upon
'itch
termes,
that
it
will
he
in
it
to
morrow' a
fo
,
much
lefe
bccatcfe
it Iran
immortall
fub
fiance;
but,
fimply becaufe
it
is now
or
this
day
in'the
body:
so the Reafon
why
Angels
at
this
day do
the
will ofGád,
is not
becaufe
they have fuch
a
principle.o
f
holineffe; or Obedience
inthem, which
they cannot
put
off, or
loge
to
eternity,but
becaufe
of
fuch
a
principle as
we
fpealre
of
residing in them
at
prefent: therefor
when
fohn
affigneth the
remaining
ofthefeed
of
Gad in him
that
is
borne
ofhim,
for
the reafon
why
he cloth
not commit
jinne,certaine
it
k
that
by
this
renoaining.o
f
the
feed
he
meaneth nothing
elfe
but the prefent
refadence
or
abode
thereof in
this
rerfon; and
if
his
intent had
been
either
to
affert,
or imply
a
perpetual)
refidence
of
thisfeed;in
him,
that
is
borne
of
God;
it
had
been much more proper
for
him
to
have raved
itfor
a
reafon
of
the
latter
propof
tion,,[he that
is
borneof
God
cannot
finne]
then
to
havefubjoyned
it
as
a
reafon
of
the
former;
for though
the future
continuance
of
the thing in being,
can
be no
reafon
of
the
e
ffdl
pre"
f
ent,yet
it
will
be
a
groundor reafon
of
the continuance
of
a
prefent
Anf:
I have
thus at
large
tranfcribedthis
difcourfe, becaufe
it
is
the
rum
of
what Mr
Goodwin,
hath
to
offer for
the
weakning
of
our Argument from
this
place,
of
what
weight this
is;will
quickly appéare. For
I.
This
Reafon
(the
feed abîdeth
in
him)
though
brought
in
illatively; in
refpeet
of
what
was faid
before, [he
cloth
not commit
finne]
yet bath
its caufall
influence
chiefly
into
htit which fó
ioweth,
he
cannot
finne.
To
make good
what
wasfitftfpoken, òf
his not
-
committing
finne
that is
borne
of
God,
the A-
poftle difcovereth
the
caufe
of it,
which
fo
farre
fecureth'thetruth of
thatex=
preflion,
as-that
it
caufeth
it
to
afcend; and call
then'
up
higher,
to
a.cer-
tame impoflibility'ofdoing
of
that-
which
was
only'at
firftfimply denyed.
Neither
is
this Aflertton
the
feed
of
God
abideth,in hint, any otherwife a
Rea:r
fon
of
the
frrft
Affertion
Hecommitteth
not finne,
than
as
it
is
the
eaufe
ofthe
latter.
He
cannotfinite.
NowMr
Goodwin
granteth
in
the
clofe
of
his
Difcòurfe
that
thefuture
continuance
of
a
thing
in being, is,
or
may
be
the
cau
f
è
of
the
con-
tinuanceofaneffbHwhichat
prefent
itproduceth; and what
Mr
Goodwin
may
more curioufly :difcover
of
the intent oftheApoftle,
his
words
plain-
ly
affert
the
continuance
and
abode
o
fthe
feed ofGod
in
them in whom
it
is
and
ufingit
as
he
doth,
for
a
reafon
ofthe flatter
clanfe
of
that
Propofition
[ile
cannot
finne] hefpeaketh properly enough,
lb
great
a
Mafter
(of
one
lan-
guage at leaft)
as
Mr
Goodwin
being judge.
-
a:
The
Keafon
infifred
on
by
the
Apoftle,is
neither
from
the word
[fled]
nor
from
the
word
[abideth]
nor from
the
nature
ofthetfèed
limply confide
-
red, nor
from its
permanency
and
continuance
[fhef
ed
abideth;]
So
that
it is
no
exception to
the:intendment
of
the
Apoftle,
to
a
llert the
abiding
of
the
feed, not
to
be
a
fttffieient
carafe
ofthe
Propolitión,
becaufe its
abiding
or
per-
manencie
is
not
a
caufe
of
prefent not
finning, for
it
is
not
affertedthat
it
is.
His
prefent
not
finning in whom
it is,
is
from-God,
his being
borne
of
God
by
the
feed:,
his
continuance
and
eflate
of
notfinning,
(both
which
are intended)
is
from the
abiding
of
the
feed.
The,
whole
conditionof
The Perfon,that
He
finn-
cth
not,neithercan
fnne,(which
tetmes regard
his
continued
eftate)
is
from
the
whole Propofition, hefted
o
f
God abided.)
in
him.
Separate
the
permanency
of
the
feed;
which
is
aflèrted
in
the
'
confideration
of
it, and
it
refpeds
Only,
and folely,
the
continuance
of
the
effect
which
is
produced
by
it
as feed,
or
of
the ettate
wherein
any
one
is
placed,
.
by being
-borne
ofGod.
All
that
Mr
Goadcnin
bath
to
offer in,this cafe,
is
that
the
abiding
of
the
fee
d,
is
fo affected
to
bethe
Reafon
ofthat
part ofthe
°Propofition
He
t-
ommtts not
'nine,
as
not
to
be