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Mr
Gs Anfwérpropofèd:to
tonftderation.
C®
P.
XVII.
Anf:
Do
&or
Prideaux
his
choofing
not
to
l ay
the
weight
ofthis
Anfwer,
to
the
Arguineat
of
the
Arminians from this place, on
the
Hypotheticall
manner
of
the
expreffion ufed
therein,
is
called
a defiling
this
sanEtuary
by
the
Guardi-
ans
of
the
caufe whole
protection
it
undertakes. Crimina rafts,
librat
in aintithe-
fis;
dotlas
pofuiffe
fguraa
laudatur?
what are
my
thoughts
of
it
I need
not ex-
preffe, being
unconcerned
in
the
buknefe,
as
knowing it
not at
all needfull
to
be infified
on, for the
purpofe for which
it
is
produced, the
Text
looking
not at
all
towards the
Doctrines
under con;
deration
;
yet
I mùfi needs fay, I
am
not
fatisfied
with the
Doctors
attempt for the removal'
of it',
nor with
what
is
farther added
by
the
Remonfirants, in
the
place which we
are
fent
un-
to
by
M.
Goodroins
marginali diredions though it
fhould
be
granted, that
fuch
conditional'
expreflìons
do
fuppofe,
or
may
(
for
that
they
alwaies
do
is
not
áffirmed
and
in
force
cafes
it
is
evident they doe
not
) that
there
is
fomething
in
pof/e,
as
the
DoElor
fpeakes,
whereunto they doe relate, yet
they
doe not inferre,
that the
poßibi1ity
may by no
meanes
be hindred from ever
being reduced into
A
&.
We grant
a poffibility
of
defertion
in Believers ,
in
refpe&
of
their own
principles
of
operation,
which is
ground
fiifficient
for
to
give
occafion
to
fuch
Hypothetical/
expreffons,as
containecom
mina
dons,
and threatnings
in
them,
but
yet notwithfianding
that
poffibility on
that
ac-
count
fuppofed, yet
the bringing forth
of
that
poffibility
into an
aetuall
ac-
complifhment,
may
not be
effe&ually
prevented by
the
fpirit and
grace of
God,
the
Door
faies
nothing. This
I fay
is
ground
fufficient
for
fach
Hypo-
theticall comminations,
that
in refpe&
of
them,
to
whom they are made, it
is
poffible
to incurre
the
thing threatned
,
by
the
meanes
therein mentioned,
which yet upon
other
accounts
is
not
poflible.
T
hat God
who faies,
if
the
Righteous man
turn
from
his Righteoufneffe, he
fhall
dye,
and
faies
fo
on purpofe
to
preferveRighteous men from
fo
doing
,
knowes
full
well,
that
the things
in
refpeet
of
themfelves,
of
whom
,
and
to
whom he
fpeakes
,
is
fufficiently
poffible,
to
give
a
cleare foundation
to
that
expreffion. So
that if
M.
Goodwin
bath not
fomething
of
his
own
to
adde, he
will
find
little
reliefe from
the
con-
ceptions
of
that
Learned
Dollar : wherein, yet
,
I
fhould
not
have
tranflated
fume phrafes and exprefíìons,
as
M.G bath
made
bold
to doe,
He adds therefore Pag.
276.
To
fay
that
God
putteth a
cafe
in
filchfolemnity
and
emphaticalneffe
of
words
and
phrafe,
as are remarkeable
all
along
in the
car-
riage
of
the
place
in hand,ofwhich
there is
no
poffibility,
that it
fhould ever
hap
-
pen,or
be
exemplifyed
in reality ofevent',
and
this in vindication
of
himfelfe,
and
the
equity
of
his
dealings
and
proceedings
with
men, is
to
bring
a
fcandall and
re
proach
of
weakeskkfe upon
that
infinite
Wifdome
of
his, which magni
fyes
it
felfe
in all his
workes, which
alfo is fo much
the
more
unworthy
and
unpardona-
ble,when
there
is afence
commodious every way
worthy,aswell the
infinite
mifdome
ne
the
Goodneffe
of
God,
pertinent
and
proper
to
the
occafion he
bath in hand,
which
offers
it
file
plainely
and
clearely.
So
far He.
And this
is
all
it
feenies
which Mr
Goodwin
bath
to
adder and
indeed
this
allis
nothing
at all,but only
the
repetition
of
what
was
urged before from
the
Dolfor, in
more fwelling,and
leffe
fignificant
termes.What
poffiblity
there
is
in
the
thing, hath been before
manifefled
;
that
this, poffibility
fhould ne-
ceffarily
be
exemplifyed
in
reality
of
to
give
fignificancy
to
this
ex-
preflìon,I
fuppofe
is
not Mr
Goodwinrowne
intendment;
True
Believers
ac-
cording to
the Do
&ring
he
afferts
(as he
pretends)
are
only
in filch
a
remote
poffibility
of
Apo
/lafyy,
as
that
it
can fcarce
be
called
danger.
Now doubtleffe
it
is pnffrble
that
fbch
a
remote poffibility
may
never be reduced into
A&.
But
now
if
Mr
Goodwin
will
not be
contented
with
fuck
a
poffibility,
as
may,but
alto
will
have
that,
mutt be
exemplifyed in reality
ofevent,
he
is
advanced
from
407
4.
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