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QXVI.SomeProfefforsApoff. no
caule
to
quefiion
the
fincerity
of
others.
388
unto.
I awake
the
proofe
of
the
Minor,
which in
the
following Difcourfe
a-
mounts to this:
That judging all
thofe
who
fall
fin:dly
away
not
to
have
been
true
Believers,
we
cannot
but
have evill
furnreifer,
of
all
thatjiand, that
they
are'
not true
Believers,
feeing
as
good
as they
have
fallen
away,hence
jealoufyesoftheir
Hj'pocrybo
will arife. And he
tells
us
for
his
part,
he knowes no Chriflian
in
the
world,
that
he
hath more
reafon
to
judge
a
true
Believer,
than he
had to
judge
force,
who are
turned wretched
Apoflates.
To
which
I
fw
briefely,
4.
24.
Firft,
I
doubt
not
but
Mr
Goodwin
knowes fullwell,
that
this
is
not
a
Rule
given
us
to
make
a
judgement
of
Believers
by, with whom
we walke,
and
Rom
s2.1s.
towards whom it
is
required
we
beare
Love without
dßimulation,
to-
wards
fuch
as Phew
us
their
Faith
by their worker; Our
rule
of
walking
front
the principle
of
Love, and Charity
is
layd downe
in
t
Cor.
13. And
if
all
that
any man knowes
at thisday
profeffours
in
this world,fhould turne.Apoflates,
fave only
one,
and
he had reckoned
that
one, and them
that
are
Apoftatized,
before their
Apoflafy,
ofthe
fame ranke
of
Believers, and
had no
eviti
thoughts
ofthat
one above the
ref},
he
was
bound without
any evill furmifes
to
believe
all
things, and
to
hope
all
things,
and not to let
goe
his
lincere Love
towards
that
one,imbracing ofhim,delighting
in
him,holding cómunion
with
him
to
his lives
end
without
fufpicion
of
Hypocrify,or
other hard
thoughts
of
him unies he alfo fhould
degenerate; 'Tis
Paid
foh.2.23.That
many believed
on Chrift becaufe
of
the
profeffion
of
Faith
that
they shade,&
14.6.34.
They
pray
earneftly
to
be
fed
with
the
bread
of
Life;So
that
they were accounted
a-
mong
hisDifciples
v.6o.
&
vet
upon
a
temptation they
left
our Saviour,&wal-
ked
no more
with him,
v.
66 Now
notwithflanding the
profeffion
ofthefe
inea
our
Saviour plainely
Cayes,
that
they
believed
not,
v.64. They
falling
thus
away who had
profeffcd
to
believe,
and were accounted
as
Believers,
Co
called
and named among the
Difciples
ofChrift,
and
Chriff declaring on
the
ac-
count
of
their
Apoftacy,
that
indeed
they did never believe,
how
was
it
that
the
remaining
Twelve
had not hard
thoughts
and
jealou(yes
one
ofanother,
(efpecially confidering
that
there
was
one Hypocrite hill left among
them)
whether they had
true
Faith or no,
feeing
our
Saviour
had
declared
that
thofe
who
fo fell
off; as
thofe before mentioned,
had none? Doubtleflè
they were
inftrucled
to
walke by
a
better
and ftreighter Rule,than
that
Mr
Goodwin
here
afiìgnes
to
Believers;
Let
him
who
will
or
can fall
away,
whilft we
are
taught
of
God
to love one
another,
and are
aCted
by
the
principle
ofLove
which
thin/
es
no
evil],
and
do contend
againft evill
Curmizes as
the
workes
of
theflefh;
There
is
not
any
thing
in
the
leaf}
attending the
difcovery
of
one
mans Hypo -
crify,
to worke
us
to
a
perfwafion
that
another
(not
in
any
thing dilcovered
is fo
alto
;
that
becaufe
we
fee
Tome
goodly
houfe fall
under
ftormes
and
temptations
to the
ground,
and
fo
manifeft
it
Celfe
to
have
been
built
on
the
fand,
that
therefore
we
mull conclude
that
thofe
which Hand, are
not built
upon
the Rocke,
is
not
fuited
to
any
principle
or Rule that our
Mafter
bath
given
us
to
walke by,in
order
to
the
exercife
of
thatLove,ìvhich he calleth for
in
us
towards one another.
0.25.
Secondly,
I fay
this
way
of
proceeding
in
our thoughts
and judgements
doth the
Holy,
Ghoft
lead
us
to:
t
Bohn
z
t
9.
The
Apoftle giving
an
account
offome
who
had formerly walked with
him in
the
profefiìon
of
the Faith,
and
of
the
fellowfhip
which they had with
the
Father
and
Bonne,
fell
away from
Chrifi into
an
oppofition againft him,
fo
farre
as
to
deferve
the title
of
Anti
-
chrifts,
having not only forfaken
the
Gofpell,
but
making it
all()
their
buff-
neffeto oppofeit,
and
to
feduceoothers
from
the
fimplicity
ofthe
fame; Thefe
be informes
the fcattered
Believers
of
the
Jewes
were
Apoflates,
having for-
merly