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C.XV[:
Feare
of
Heil
not
the
moil
EEfeetuali
motive to Obedience.
38o one
of
them partakers
of
that
Spirit
with
whom
is
liberty, are
all
indeed
with
a
living principle
of
Grace,
Faith
and
Love, and are
conítrainedby
the
Love
ofChrift to
live
to
him, are
all
under
Grace and
not under
the,
Law
,
have
their
finnes in
fome meafure begun
to
be
mortifyed, and the
fleíh
with the
lutlsthereof, the
old man,
with
all
his wayes
and
wiles
crucifyed, by the
Death and
Croflè
ofChrift, brought with their
power
and
efficacy
by
the
Spirit
into
their
hearts,are
all delivered from
that
bondage
wherein they were
for
feare
of Deathand
Hell
all
"their
dayes, by having
Chrifi
made
Redemption
unto
them
?
I
fay
that
thefe.
perfon's
Ihould
be
molt
effe&ually
ftirred
up
to Obedience,
by
the dread
and
terrour
of
that
Iron
rod,
of
vengtance
and Hell,and
that
they fhould be
fo,
by Gods
appointment,
is
fuch
a
new,
fuch
another Gofpell,asifpreached
by an Angell from Heaven,
wefhould not
re-
ceive.
That
indeed no motive
can
be taken
from hence,
or
from
any
thing
in
the
Do&rine by Mr
Goodwin
contended for,fuited
to
the.principle
ofGofpell
Obedience
in the Saints,
that
no
fin
or lufl'whatfoever
was
ever mortifyed
by
it,that it
is
a
clog,hinderance
&
burthen to
all
Saints
as
far
as,
they
have
to
do
with it,in the
wayes
of
God,
hath
bin before demonffrated: And therefore
leaving it withal!
the
Confolation
that
-it
affords,
unto
thofe who
of
God are
given up
thereunto,
we proceed
to the
Confideration
of
another
Argument
his
eighth
in this cafe which
is
thuspropòfed
Se
&.37.
4.
5-
That
Doc`Irine
which evacuates
and
/times into iveakenefe
andfolly,all
the
gra-
cious councells
of
the
:Holy.
Ghoft
,
which
conf
ft partly in the diligent- information
which
he
gives
unto the
saints
front
place to place, concerning the
ho
fide,
cruel!
and
bloody
mind and intention
of
sathan
aping
them,
partly in detef#ing
and
making
known all
his
fubtile
firatagems,his
plots,
methoo.c,
and
dangerous
Ma-
chinations againfl
them;
partly
alfä
infurnifiing
them with fpeciall
weapons
of
all
forts,
whereby they enay;be.able
fo
grapple
with him, and
to
trptmph
over
him,
partly againe in
thofe
frequent
admonitions and Exhortations,
to
quit
themfelver
like
men
in
refi fling him, which are
found
in
the Scripture: And
laflly
in
pro-
fe
f,'ing
his
feare
leaft
sat
han
fhould circumvent
and
deceive
them,
that
DolSrine
Z
fay which
refïetisdifparagementand vanity
upon.
all
thofe
mollferious
andgraci-
one
applycationsofthe
Holy
Gbolt ,
midi
needs
be
a"Dolïritte
of
vanity
anderreur,
And
confequently
that
which
oppofeth
it
by
a
like
neceffity,
a
truth:
But
fuch
is the
common
Doarine
of
abfolute
and
infallible
-Perfeverance:
Ergo.
ss.
6.
Anf Not
to
ingage
into
any
needleffe
conteft
about
wayes
of
Arguing,
when
the
defigne
and ftrength
of
the Argument
is
evident,
I
(hall only
re-
marke two
things upon this.
Firft
the
Holy Ghoft
profeffing his feare
leaft
Sathan Ihould
beguile
Belie-
vers,
is
a
miftake.
It
was Paul
that
was fo
afraid,
not
the
Holy Ghoft,
though
he
wrote
that feare, by the appointment
and.
n-
of
the Holy Ghoft.
TheApofile
was
jealous leaft
the
Saints
Ihould by
the craft
of
Sathan
be
fedu-
ced into errours and mifcarriages;
which
yet
argues not
their
finall defe&ion,
this indeed he records
of
himfelfe ;
but
of
the
feares
of
the Holy Ghoft
arifing
from
his
uncertainty
of
thofe
iffue
of
the
things and want
of
power to prevent
the
cóming on
ofthe
things feared, I fuppofe
there
is
no mention.
And
Secondly
that the
confequent
of
the fuppolition
in
the
inference made
up-
on
it,
is
not
fo
cleare
to
me
as
to Mr
Goodwin:
via.
Snppofe
any
DoíArene
to
be
fa
fe,
whatfoever
Dol rive
islet
up
in-
.oppoftion
to
it,
is
true;
I have
kuowne and
fo
bath
Mr
Goodwin
al
fo,
when
'the truth
hath layen
be-
tween oppofite Do&rines, affaulted by
both,
entertained by neither; with
thefeObfervations
I
paflè
the
Major
of
this sillagifine
the Minor
he
thus
con
-
firmes.