459 / 504
Txech. i8.
24,
25.
propofed to confidetation.
C
A
P.
XYII.
for the interpretation
ofit,
with
humble'
dependance on
God" waiting for 403
the
guidance
of
his
Spirit according
to
the
Promife
of
his
deare
Sonne;
alking
--
him
of
him
continually
that
he may dwell with
us,
anoint and lead
us
into all
truth,
with
an
utter
abrenunciation
of
all
our fkill,abilityes, wifdome and
any refting on
them,knowing
that
it
is
God alone
that
gives us
underftanding
is
the
courfe
that hitherto
hath been
ufed in
our enquiry after the mind
of
God,
in
the
Doarine
under
confederation,
and
which
(the
Lord
at-lifting
)
Ihall
be
heeded, and kept
clofe
unto,
in
that
difcuflìon
of
the Texts
of
Scrip
-
turewrefted
by Mr
Goodwin
(as by others before him)
to
give
countenance
to
his
oppofition
to the
Truth
hitherto
uttered,
confirmed and vindicated
from
his
contradiaions thereunto.
The
place
of
Scripture
firft ínfified
on
and
on the account whereof, he
tri-
ß'
1Óá
umphs with
the
greateft
confidence
of
fucceffe,is
that
of
Ezaech.
i
8.24,2
5.
Un-
which words
hefubjoynes
a
Triumphant
Exulting Exclamation.
.
What
more
(faith he)
can
the
underfianding judgementfoule
and
confcience
of
a
man,reafonably
defare
for
the
efiablifbment
in
any
truth
whatfoever,than
is
deli-
vered
by
God
himfelfe
in this
paffage,
to
evince
thepolfibility
ofa
righteous mans
ìleclining
front
his righteoufneffe,
and
that
unto
death.
The
councell given
of
old to the
King,
may
not be
unfeafonable
to
Mr
Goodwin
in that
dominion which he exercifeth
in his
owne
thoughts
in
this
worke
of
his,
let not
him
that
putteth
on
this armour
boaftlike
him
that
puteth
it
ofd.
You
have
but
newly
entered the
lifts;
and
that,
with
all.
prefed
Souldiers
unwilling
fo
much
as
once
to
appeare
in
that
fervice they
are forced
to Ifyou
will
but
fufpend your
triuinph,untill
we
have made
a
little tryall
of
your
for-
ces,
and your fkill
in
managing
of
them
to the
battle,
perhaps you may
be
a
little taken
off from
this
confidence
of
fuccefle,
notwithftanding the
facing
of
this
Scripture upon the
Truth,being cut
offand taken
away from
that
co-,
herence and connexion; and
Ration wherein
it
is
placed
of
God
(which
is
not
at
the
leaft
enquired
into) it
will be found
in
that
iffue
to
beare it no ill
will at
all
;
As
will
alfo
be manifefted by the light
of
the editing
confide
-
ration.
t.
The
matter under enquiry,& into
a
difquifition
of
whofe frate we
have
hitherto
been engaged in
the condition
of
the
Saints
of
God,
and
his
dealing
with them,in and under the Covenant
of
Grace
in
Generall.For our guidance
and direalon
herein,a
Text
ofScripture evincing the
Righteoufneffe
of
Gods
dealings with
a
number
of
perfons .in
a
peculiar
cafe, which was
under
de-
bate,
is
produced and by
the tenour
of
this, and according
to
the teneur
of
the
reafonings
therein, mull
all
the
Promifes
of
God,
in
the Covenant
of
Grace, made and ratifyed
by
the
Blond
of
Chrift, be regulated and interpre-
ted.
We
have been
told
by
as
Learned a man
as
Mr
Goodwin,
that
Promifes
made
to
the
people
of
the
7ewes
peculiarly, and fuited
to the
peculiar frate
and condition wherein they were,do
not
concerne the People
of
God
in
gene-
ral] ;
And why may
not the
fame
be the condition
of
Threatnings
gi-
ven
out
upon
a parralell account
Compedes
quas
fecit
ipfe
ut
ferat
gluon
eft.
2.
That
it
is
the
determination and
flaring
of
a
particular Cohtroverfy;
between God and
the_people
of
the Jewes, fuited to
a
peculiar dïfpenfation
of
his
Providence towards them
which
is
here propofed,
is
evident
from
the
occafion
of
the
words lay'd downe v.
2,
3,
What
mean
ye
&c. that
ufe
this
proverb concerning
the
Land
oflrrael,
faying,
the
Fathers
have eaten
rower
Grapes,
and the
children
teeth are
fet
on
edge? As
I
live
faith.
the Lord,
&c.
It
is
the
ufeof
a Proverb
concerning the Land
of
ifrael,
that
God
is
decrying
and difproving the
truth
of
the Proverb
it
felfe
under confideration,
and that
Fffa
this