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CAP.
XVII.
The
Righteous man
Ipoken
of,
who,
your,
to
give any
light
or illuttration
thereunto
,
by
the
fcope
,
occafion,
or
dependance
of
the parts of
it one upon.another,
does
morethan
once and
Mr
Goodwin
instead, when nothing elfe prefents it
felfe
to
his
reliefe:
It
is
true
the
whole
context
of
theChapter;
grants
the
perlons fpoken
of to
be
righte-
ous
in
the
performance
of
the
duties mentioned
in
the
Chapter,
in
oppolition
to.
thewicked
man and
his
intentions
,
and
wayes
defcribed therein, in pro
portion
to
the
difpenfation
of
the
Covenant, whole Rule &principle
is
pla-
ced in
the
head
ofv.2o.
which M.
Goodwin direecs us
unto
;viz.
the
fettle
that
finneth
it
(hall
dye;
And
as
there
is
nothing
in
all
this
contrary
to
any thing
in
the
Expofition by
Mr
Goodwin
oppofed,
fo
there
is
not
any
thing
snore
pro-
ved, nor
once
attempted to
be here by
M.
Goodwin
himfelfe,
than
what
is
confeffed
therein.
It
is
acknowledged
that
the perfon
fpoken
of
is
truly
and
really righteous,
with
that
kind
of
righteoufnefie which
is
intended,and
wherein
if
he
continu-
ed,
he
was
to
receive
the
reward
of
righteoufnefe, then
under
confideration;
and
yet, though
fuch
an one might bé
truly
and really united
unto
Chrift, yet
there
is
nothing
in
the
Text,
nor Context ,
enforcing
that
fuch an
one
,
and
none
elfe
is
intended here: and
more
in
this
cafe Mr
Goodwin
hath not
to
adde; nor doth
he
threaten
us
with
any
more
than
he
bath
delivered,
as
he
did upon the
confideration
of
the tenor
of
the words ,
and
our
enquirywhe-
ther
they are
of
an
hypotheticallor
abfolute
nature and importance.
It
is
true
he addes,
that
Calvin
in
his
Expofition
on the place
notwithfan-
ding his
warineffe
to
mannage
itfo,
as
that
the
Do
trine
of
Perfeverance which
he
maintained, might
fuffer
no
dammage,
(which perhaps
M.
G. was
not
fo
wary
inexprefhing, contending
fo
much
as
he does
,
to
manifest,
that
he
had
thoughts
lying
another way)
and
therefore
afl
erting the prrfon
here
.fpoken
o
f,
to
be
a
Perf
onfeemingly
righteous
only;
yet
lets
fall
filch things,
as declared
nothing
to
be
wanting
in this
Righteousperfon, but Perseverance.
but
that
Calvin
grants
in any expreffion
of
his, this
perfon,
or
him
concerned herein
,
to
be
in
fuck
an
efface, as
to
want nothing but
Perfeverance,
to
Lender
them everlafting-
ly bleffed,
is
notorinufly
felfe;
neither
does any
thing
in
the
expreflions
cited
by
M.
Goodwin
come from
the
body
of
his
difcourfe
,
in
the
Jeaft
look
that
way,
as
might
eafily
be
manifefted, did
I
judge
it
meet
in a
Context
of
this
nature,
to trade
in
the
Authorities
of
men;
fo
that
I
cannot
but
wonder with
what
confidence,
he
is
pleated
to
impofe fuch
a
fence
upon
his
words;
all
this
while
then, notwithftanding
any
thing our Author
hath to
fay
to
the contra-
ry, the
Righteous
Perfon
here
intended ,
may be only
fuch
an
one,
as was
de-
fcribed
in
the entrance
of
this
Confideration
of
his;
and
that
it
is
not
requifìte
from the
Text, or
Context, that
he should be
any
other,
is
more evident
than
that
it
is
to
be contended
against.
sea.
7.
He deales with
another
Expofition
of
the
words
,
which
hath
no
(mall
countenance
given
unto it
from
the
Scriptures,
which for
to
prevaile
himfelfe upon
an
expreffion or
two,
by
the
by,
he
fits
downe
in
the
words
of
D.
Prideaux Letd.6,
and they are
there.
There is
(faith he)
a
double
Right
eouf-
neffe, one,
inherent,or
ofW
ores,
by
which
we
are
fanl
sfled;
another,
imputed,
or
of
Faith,
whereby we
are
juf
ified;
A
righteous man may turne
of
de
from
his
own
,Righteoufneffe:
viz.
from
his
Holinef
e,
and
fall
into
very heinous
fnnes:
but
it
loth
notfollow
from
hence,
that
therefore
he
bath
wholly
fbaken
of
from
him
[
or
out
of
him]
the
Righteoufneffe
of
Chrifl
To
this he adornes
a
threefold re-
ply:
t.
The
Doïíor
here prefents
us
with
a
piece
of
new
Divinity
,
in
making San-
tl!ifrcation
and
7ufiiftcation,
no
more
intimate friends, than
that
one
can live
withoutthe
company
and
prefence
of
the other.
Doubtlefeif
a
mans juflification,
may