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A
twofold
fall
from the
Righteoufnetfe
of
San&if.tcaton
CAP.
XVII.
may
flay
behind
when
his Holinefe is departed,
thatafertionof
the Apofilewill 411
.hurdlyStand; without
Holineffeno
man
fballfee
the
Lord:
Heb.
12.
rq,
Andif-
they
that
are
Chris`Is
[i.e.
who
believe
in Chrifl
,
and
thereby are
juftifi'ed
]
;
have
crucified the
flefh
with
the of
f
eelions
and
hefts
(another
affertion
of
the
fame
Apo.
{Ile)
how
their relation
unto Chri
fl
fliould
¡land, and yet
their
Holinefe
finke and
fall,
I
underpaid
not.
But
h
leave his
friends
to
be
his
enemies
in
this.
Anf.
How
little advantageMr
Goodwin
hath obtained by attempting a
diverfion from
the
Confideration
of
the
matter
infrffed on
(which
is
all
he
Both in
this
Paragraph)
will quickly
appeare,
from
the
Righteoufneffe
of
Sanctification
there
is
or
may
be füppofed
a
twofold
fall. Firff from
the ex-
ercifes
ofit,
in all
or
any
of
the fruits
thereof, acccording
to the
will
ofGod.
Secondly from the Habit
and
Principle
of
it,in
refpe
l
of
its
roote
and
gronnd-
worke
in
the
foule;
it
is
the former
that
the
Donor
affects;
A
man faith he,
may fall away from
the
zealous
praaite.of
the dutyes
of
holineflè,
and
with
or
under violence
of
Temptation
as
to fruit-bearing
decay
in
dole
walking, untill the whole
feeme really
to dye,
fo
as
through the
righteous
judgment
of
God, to be
expofed
to
calamityes,'corrections and
punifhments
in
this Life,
yea
the great death
it
(elfe,
as
it
fell
out
in
the
cafe
of
jell*
who
fell
by the
fword in
undertaking
againli
the
mind
and
will
of
God: but
now
for
the worke and
principles
of
Holineffe,
none who have once received
it,
can
ever
caff
it
up, and he come wholly.
without,
andbetween
this,
and
the
righteoufneYfe
of
juffification,
there
is
that
ffri&
connexion,
that
the
one
cannot,
doth not
confiíf
without the other,
if
now Mr
Goodwin
underffands
not,
how
a
Juftifyed,
Sanftifyed
perfon,
may decline from
the
wayes,
and
pretences
of
Holineffe for
a
feafon, fo
as
to provokethe
Lord
to
deale Iharply,
.
yea
and
fotnetimes terribly with him,
take
vengeance
of
his
invention,
and yet
that
perfon
not
look
his
relation
to
Chriff, nor
his
interefl
in
the
Love and favour
of
God,
I fhall
not prefume to infirufl
him
in
the know-
ledge
thereof;
but
referre
him
to
them who
are
better
able
fo
todo,
where-
in upon the account
of
his
aptneffe
to
heare
as
well as
teatch,l
prefume
their
undertakings
will
not be
difficult. He
adds.
2..
He
feemes
by
his
word(penitus)
wholly, thoroughly, or
altogether,
to be
fin.
guiar
alfo
in
another
firaine
of
Divinity, and
to
teach magic
and
minus in
ju_
fli.-
fication.
For inPaying
thatfrom
a
mans
apo
fiatizingfrom
his
arene
righteoufnef
e,
it
cloth.
not
follow
that
therefore
he
bath
wholly:or
altogether fhaken
of
the imputed
r`ighteoufnes
of
Chrifi,
cloth he
not
imply,that
a
man
may
fhake,
off
forne
part
of
the
righteoufnefe
of
Chrifi
from him, and yet
!¿eepe
another
part
of it
upon
him
?
Or
elfe
that
by
finning,
he
may
come
to
weare
the
entire
garment, or clothing
of
it
ro
loofely,
that
it
will
be ready
to drop
or
fall
of
from
him
every
hour? And con.
feyuently:that
the, righteoufnefe
of
Chrifi
fits
falser, and
clofer
upon
force
than
upon
others;
yea
upon
the fame perfon
at
one
tine
than another.
Anf:
That
this,
is
afecond attempt,
for
to,
lead
the Reader
Off
front the
confiderat'on
of
the bufineffe;inhand, and to prepare
him
by
a
diverfion,
to
an acceptatió
of what
he
afterwards tenders,in
way
of
reply,
th
at
he
may
not
perceive how
infufficient,
it
is
for
the
purpofe, by
an
immediate comparing
ofit,
with
the anfwerit
felfe,
is
evident.
Truly
when 'in''niy"ybunger
`
dayes, I
was
wont to.beare
that Dolor
in'his Lettures, and
other
exercifes,
i'
did
not
think then
I should
have
afterwards
foundhim
called
in "queffion
for
want
of
(kill
to
expreffe himfelfe,
and the
fence
of
his'minde in Latine,
he
having
a
readinéífe
and dexterity
in
that
Language equall
to
any
that
ever
I
knew,nei-
ther
yet
amt
convinced
that
his
word
penitua,
upon
which
Mr
Goodwin
cri-
ticifeth,(being commonly
as
might
byinnumerable
inffances be
made
good)
ufed
to
encreafe
and
make emphaticall
the;
import of
the
word wherewith
it
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