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llo
;t.
of
Sc'
Pert:
not
contrary to
the
Councells
of
the
Holy
Gh.C.XVI.
Ifthe;Saintsbe'innopoi
ìbilily
of
being
finally
overcome
by
sedan, or
ofMif-
381"
carrying
in
the
great and
molt
important
bufineffè
of
theirSalvation
by
his
fnares
andfubtilties,
all
that
operoufnefe,
and
diligence
of
the
Holy G%oft,
in
thofe
late
4'
T
mentioned
Addref
ements
of
his
unto them ,
in
order
to
their
finall
conquefl
over
Satan,
will
be
found
of
very
light
conf
quence
,
of
little
concernement
to
them:
yea
if
the
faid
Addrefements
of
the
Holy
Ghofl,
be
compared, withthe State
and
Condition
of
the Saints,
as
the
faid
Doarine
of
Perfeverance reprefenteth
and af-
firmeth it
to
be,
the
utter"
ufelefiieffe,
and
impertinency
of
them,
will
much more
evidently
appeare.
Anf.
What
poflibility
or not
pof
ability
the
Saints
are in,
of
finall
Apofta-
fy
from
God,
what affurance themfelves have,
may have
,
or have not, con-
cerning their
Perf
everance,
with
what
is
the
life
of
Admonitions and
Exhorta-
tions
to them
in
that condition, hath
been
already
declared; for the prefent,
I
fhall
only adde;
That
let their
finall
Apoftafy,
in refpe&
of
the Event,bene-
ver
fo impoffible,
yet
in
the
Efate
and condition wherein they are
,
andfrom
the
things
which
they
are exercifed
about,
with
the
Principles on which
they
proceed,
and
the
wayes
whereby they are
led
on, confiderationsenough,may
be
railed
to
fet
forth thofe Exhortations,
Admonitions, and Encouragements,
appointed
by
the HolyGhoft, to
be
iafed
and
in
filed
on,
in
the
Adminiftrati-
on
of
the
Word,
imthe Beauty and fplendor
of
infinite
Wifdome, Love, and
Kindneffe.
The
glory
of
God
being
fo
eminently concerned,
as
it
is, in
the
Obedience, and fruitfulneffe
of
the
Saints
; the honour
of
the
Lord
Jefus in
this
World,
with
the
advancement, and propagation
of
the
Gofpell,
in
like
manner relating
there unto; Their
own
peace lying fo
much,
as
it doth upon
their
clofe walking with
God, the
fpirit being
fo
grieved
by
their
falling
into
finne,
as
he
is,
God
fo
difhonoured
, and
tbemfelves expofed
to
fuch
fearful
defertions, darkneffe, trouble,
forrow, and difquietments
as
they are, upon
their
being overcome by
the temptations
of
Satan, and prevailed upon
to
turne
afide
into
waies
and
finnes ,
fhort
of totali
Apoftafy ,
and
it being
the
purpofe
of
the Lord,
to
lead them on
in
obedience,
in wayes
fuitable
to that
nature, he
created them
withall,
and
that
New
nature
wherewith
he
hath en-
dued
them,(
both
apt to- be wrought upon by Motives;
Exhortations, and
Perfwafions) without
any fuck fuppofall, as
that
of
finall
Apofrafy
;
There
is
a
fufficient
bottome and
foundation
ofexalting the
motives and admonitions
infifted
on,
to the
poffeffion
of
that
Glory,
of
Wifdome,and
Goodneffe which
is
their
due.
But M.
Goodwin
having
borrowed another
Pageant
from the
iteenonfirants,
had
a
great mind
to
thew it
to the
World,
in
its Engliíh dreffe,
and thereforeintroduces the
Holy Ghoft, thus fpeaking
in
the Admonitions
above pointed at.
suppofe we
then the
Holy
-Ghoflfhould
fpeake
thus
unto
the Saints,
oh
yee
that
.
4.
8;
truly
Believe,
who
by
vertue
of
the
promifes
of
that
God
that
cannot
lye
,°
are
fully
perfwaded
and
pofefl
that
ye
(hall
be
kept
by
God,
by
his irrefiflible Grace, in true
Faith untill
Deaths
fo
that
though
Satan
fhould
fet
all
his
-witts
on
works, and
by
all
hisftratagems,
fnas
e
,
and
cunning devices,
feekto
deflroy
you,
yea
though he
fhould
enticeyou
away
from
God,
by
the allurements
of
the World,
and
entangle
you
with them againe,
yea
andfbould
cau
fe
youto
runne
and
ruff
headlong
againfl
the
Light
of
your.ownConfciences,
into all manner
of
horrid
yet Jima
all
his
attempts
and
afaultsupon
you
in
every
kind
be
in
vain,&
you
(hall
be
in
never
the
more
danger, orpo bility
of
peril/ling: Vistoyou
(Zfay)
attend and
confider
how
fore and
dangerous a
coonefi
you
are like
to
be
ingagedin,for
you are
to
wreflle
not
againfi
Flefh
and
Bloud, but
again.fi
Principalities
and
Powers,
the governors
of
this
World,
and
fpirituall
wickednefes, againfi
that
old
Serpent
the Divell, the
great
red
Dragon
who was
a martherer from
the beginning;
and
who
Jill!
goes
a-
Ccc3
bout