443 / 504
Mr G's
la{}
Argument propofed.
C. XYI.
c:navoidably to
aft
Righteoufly,
it
will take
away
all
rewardableneffe
from
their 3$7
aEfings;
And the
Reafön is,becaufe
fùch
a necef?itating
of
them,mahes them meer-
ly
paffrve
they
having not
any
internal/
principle
of
their
ovine
to contraEl
fuch
a
necejfity
;which
Difcourfe
is
purfued with manyother words to the fame
pur.
pofe; And
a
Difcourfe
it
is
Firlf, Exceedingly Irrelative
to
the
bufinefhe
in
hand; there
is
not
any
thing
now
under confideration,
that
fhould minitfer occafion
at
all,
to
confider
the
manner
of
our
yeilding Obedience,
and the
way
of
Gods Grace,
in
the bring-
ing
forth the
fruits
thereof,
but
only
of
the
confiffency
thatis
between
Ad-.
monitions for the
uuing
of
the
meaner,
when
'tis
fuppofed impoffible
that
the
end
prevented
by
them fhould ever
come
to
paffe,
which may,
or
may
not
be
fo,
whatever be the manner and
way
of
our
yeelding Obedience upon
the ex-
ertion
ofthe
Efficacy
of
the
Grace
of
God
;
Diverfion
is
one
of
Mr
Goodwin:
ordinary
wayes
of
warding thofeblowes,which he
is
not able to beare.
Secondly fa/fe, charging
a
crime on
the Do
&rine which he
doth
oppofe
whereof it
is
not guilty; Neither it nor they
that
maintaine it,
affirming
that
there
is
a rteceffttation
upon the
wills
of
men
by the Grace
of
God,
fuch a
ne-
ceffitation
as
fhould
in
the
leaft prejudice
their
freedome
,
or
catife
them
to
elicitetheir
á
&s
as
principles
Natural/
and
neceffary
;A11
the necefhty
afcri-
bed by them
to
the
efficacy
of
the operation
of
the Grace
of
God,
refpe
&s
only
the
event;
They
fay
'tis necehary
that the
good be done,
which
God
workes
in us
by
his
Grace,
when he workes
it
in
us;
but
for the
manner
of
its
doing, they
fay, tis
wrought fuitably
to the
frate
and Condition
of
the
Inter
-
nail principle whence
tis
to
proceed, and doth
fo,
and
of
the
Agents
whereby
tis
wrought,
which are free;
Neither do they
fay
that
good
is
not wrought
by
any Native
and inward Principle
that
is
in
men,
unleffe
they
will allow
no
principle
to
be
Native
but
what
is
in
them
by
nature;
And
then indeed they
fay,
that though
Naturally
and
Phyfically
there
is,
yet
tblorally
and spiritually
there
is
not
in
them
any
Native
principle
to
that
which
is
Spiritually good;
feeing, in
that
fence
no
good
thing
dwells
in
men.
But
if
it may
fuffice
to
evince
that
they worke from
a Native
inward principle,
that
their
wills
'which are
their Natural/
facultyes, quickned,
improved and heightned,
by
inward, in-
dwelling
habits
of
Grace,properly
theirs when beftowed
on
them, are the
principles
of
all
their
a&ings,then they
allert them to worke no
leffe
from a
native internal! principle than Chriff
him felfe
did;
So
that
notwithflanding
this
diverlion given in
to
fupply the
Abfence
of
an Anfwer,
the
infiance
as
to
that
alone, wherein
the
parallel!
was
intended, hands unmoved,
and
Mr
Goodwin's
whole charge
of
folly
and inconfìhency
on
the
proceeding of
the
Holy Ghoft
falls
to
the ground,which
is
the
iffue
of
his
eight Argument
in
this
cafe; Hislaft follows.
The
laff
Argument which
he propofeth Se&;çt.
and
ends
his
Chapter
with
-
4.23.
all,
is
faint, and
as
the
droppings after
a
fhowre,will
ealily
be blown over,
he
thus propofeth it.
That
Doblrine which
Naturally, and direffly tendeth
to beget
and foment
jea-
loufyer,
and
evil/furmifes
between
brethren in
Chriff, or
fuch
as
ought cordially
to Love,lieverence
and
Honour
one
another is not confederate
with
the Gofpell,nor
from
God,and
confequently,
that
which
contraditleth
it
mull
needs
be
a
truth:
The
common
Doflrine
of
ungneflionable
and
unconditioned
Perfeverance, is
aDoflrine
of
this
tendency,
apt
to
beget
and foment
jealouf
es
, fufpicions
and
evils
furmifes
between
brethren,or fuch
as ought to Love
and
Refpetl
one the
other as brethren
in
Chri
`l:
Ergo.
Anf.
Not
.
to
take
notice
of
any
thing by
the
by, whichfundry Exprefíions
and one
inference
at the
leaff,in this
Argument
do
readily adminifter
occafion
D
d
d
.
2
.
unto.