433 / 504
Dof`trine
of
Saints Peri. fuited
to
their
Confolation.
CïXhl..
foundation
of
M.G. Pageant
everted.
18.
The proceedings
of
the
Holy
Ghoft in
exhortations
according to
our
principles:
r9.
Sophifines in the former difcourfe
farther difcovered.
20. His
farther
plea
in
this
cafe
propofed: 21. Confrdered: 22.
The nuance
of
Chrift and bis ohe-
'dienceconfidered, and vindicated
as
to the application
of it,
to
the
bufrneffe
in hand.
23.M
.G.
lait
Argument
propofed.
24.
Examined. 25.
r
Iohr2
t9.
explained.
26.
Vindicated. a7.Ar-
gumentfrom thence for
the Perlereranceof the
Saints.
28. M.G.
exceprions
thereunto.
29.
Confrdered; and
30.
Removed.,
3
r,
32, 33, 34, 35,
36, 37. The
fame
words farther perufed.
M.G. Gonfent
with
the
Remonitrants manifefted
by his erafcriptions from
their
Spit,-
dalia.
39,40,41,42,43,44,45,4d,47.
Our Argument from
a
loh.2.19.
fully cleared.
48.
Thtr
conclufron
ofthe examination
of
M. G. Arguments
for
the
Apoftafy
of
the Saints.
filer-0 H
E
feaventh Argument which Mr
Goodwin
infifleth
upon
, in
the
36.
Se
&ion
of
his
r 3.
Chapter
containes one
of
the greatefl Rarities,
he
hathto
thew
in
the
whole packe, concerning
the
influence
ofthe
Do
(ftrine
ofthe
Saints Apoflacy
into their Confolation in
their
walking with God,
an
undertaking
fo
uncapable
of
any Logicall
Confirma-
tion,
as
that
though Mr
Goodwin
interweave
his
Difcourfe concerning
it
with
a Sillogifine,
yet
he quickly leaves
that
thorney path, and
purfues
it only
with
a
Rhetorical/
flourifh
of
words,
found
out
and.
fet
in
order to de-
ceives At
the headthen
of
his
Difcourfe he placeth
this
Argument
as
it
is
called.
That Doltrine
whole
genuine
and
proper tendency
is td
advance-the
peace
and
joy
of
the Saints
in
Believing, is
ofa
naturalifympathy,with
the Gofpell,
and
upon
this
account a
truth;
filch is the
Doarine,
which inforweth- the
Saints
ofa
pof
bility
of
their total/ and
frnallfalling
away:
Ergo.
The
Propofition
of
this fyllogifme he
fuppofes we will
grant, and(not
to
trouble the Reader with the
Qualifications, and limitations formerly
annex>
ed,
to
that
which propofed
the furtherance
of
the
obedience
ofthe
Saints, as
a
proofe
of
the
truth ofanyDodrine)for
my
part I do. For
the
proofe
of
the
Affumption wherein alone Mr
Goodwin's
interefl
in this
Argument doth lye;
He
referrs
us
to
his
9.
Chapter: where,
as
he tells
us,
(if
we
may
believe
him)
he bath
undenyably demonftrated
the
truth
of
it.
But we
have confidered
whatever
looks
that
way
in
that
Chapter, and have found it
all
as
Chaffe
and
ftubble,before the breath
of
the
Spirit
of
the Lord
in
the Word.
That
which
lyes
upon
his
fhoulders,to fuppórt5(A burthen
too
heavy forhim
to
beare) &
whole demonflration
he
bath undertaken
is,
that it
tends
to the
Peace,
Joy,
&
Confolation
of
the
Saints
of
God,
in
their
walking with him (which arifes
from,
and
folely
depends upon
that
affurance
they have
of
their eternall fru-
ition
of
him
through Chrift)
to
be inftru&ed,
that
indeed they are
in
them-
felves
weake,
unable
to
do
.
any
thing
as
they ought,
that
they have no
ftrength to continue
in
the
Mercy
of
God,
but
carry about with them
a
body
ofdeath,
and
that
they are continually
eirpofed
to
a
world
of
Temptations,
whereby many ftrong men
fall
down,thruft through
and are
flame every
day,
and
that
in
this
condition
there
is
no confideration
of
the
Immutability
orVn-
châgeableneffe
of
God,
that
may fecure
them
of
the continuance
of
his
Love
to
them,no eternall
purpoCe
of
his
that
he
will
preferve them,
& keepe
them,
through
his
power,
no
Promife
of
not
leaving
them, or
of
giving them
fuch
fupplyes
of
his
Spirit and Grace
that
they
fhall
never forlake, nor leave him,
nothing
in
the Covenant, or Oath
of
God whereby
it
is
confirmed,
to
Affure
them
of
an
Abiding, and
a
not- to-be-
deflroyed communion with
him
,
that
Chrift by
his
death and oblation bath not
fo
taken away'the guilt
oftheir
fins,
nor
laid
filch
a
Pure
foundation,
for
the
deflru
&ion
ofthe
power
of
them,
as
that
they
thail
not
arife
either
way
to their
ruine
:
That
he
interceder
not for
their Prefervation
in
Faith and
HolinefTe,
upon
the account
of
which
(late
and condition,
of
things,
many
of
the moft eminent
Saints
that
ever ferved
God
in
this
world,have utterly
fallen
out
of
his
Love
and
Favour, and have
Ccc
been
377
4
1.