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pfthc
commination
ache
words,
!lull dje.
CAP.
XVII.
this mutt
needes be
fo,becaufe God here upon
fuch a
fuppofall, prbnounceth
413
fuch
a
man
to
be in
the eflate of
condemnation, what
this
is
with
other
men,
I
knownot
5
but
to
me, it
is
no proofe
at
all
5
nor
Mould
I
believe
that
to
be
the
fence
of
the place,
though
in
variety of expreflions he fhould
fignificantly
affirme
it
a
thoufand
tinies5the
Reader
alfo
is
mifinfbrmed
that the
Doflor
at-
tempts not
any
proof,
that
by
death, eternal!
death
is
not
in
this place
inten-
ded he
that
!hall
cnnfult
theplaee
will finde himfelfe
abufed, but
we
mull
fpeakemore
of
this
anon.
And this
is
all
our Authour
offers
as
to the
perlons (poker,
din
the
place
of
Scripture under confideration,
wherein though he
bath taken
Tome
paines
to
little or
no purpofe,
to
take offthe
expoliition
of
the words,
&
the defcrip-
tion
of
the
perfon given by
others, yet
he
hath not
attempted to
give
fo
much
as
one Argument,
to
confirme the fence he would
impale
on
us;
concerning
the
condition
of
the perfon fpoken
of;
And I
mutt
crave
leave
to
fay,
that
naked
affertions
be they
never
fo
many,
in
the
Chaire
or
out,
weigh
not
fo much with ine,
as
one good Argument,much
leffe as
many.
There
is
nothing
remaines
to confideration,but
only
the
Comüzinatory
part
4.
;q.
of
the words,
or
the exprefììon
of
the
punifhment
allotted
of
God
,
to
fuch
as
walke
in
the
wayes
ofApoftafy here
exprefled,
in his'
trefpaffe
that
he
hath
trefpafed, and in
his
fsnne
that
he
hath
f
nned,
in
them
fhall
he dye
5
that
is,
He
fhall
be dealt withall,
as
many
of
their Nation were
in
the
Land
of
Ifrael
;ny
judgements thall overtake
him5
it
!hall
not advantage
him
,
that
either he
had Godly Parents
that
havewalked with mee, or
that
he himfelfe, had
fo
behaved
himfelfe in a way
of
Righteoufneffe,
as
before defcribed,
ifhe turne
to
the
profanenefle
and abominations ,
which
are laid downe
as
the waits
of
wicked men, or into
any paths like
them,
he thall
even dye,
or be
punilhed
for
his
finnes,according
to
the tenour
of
the
truth,laid
downe
in
the entrance
of
the Chapter,
and repeated
againe
v.2o.
the foule
that
fcnneth
it!hall
dye
;
But
now
whereas it
might be replied
,
that
fuch
an one
,
notwithffanding
his
de-
generacy, might yet
perhaps recover himfelfe,
to
his
former
way
of
walking,
obedience, and righteoufneffe
in
converfation
?
And
is
there then no hope,
nor helpe for him, but
having once
fo
Apoffatifed, hé muff
fuffer
for
it
?
To
prevent
any fuch tnifprifion
of
the mind
of
God, there
is
added the termes
of
his
duration
in
that
ftate
of
Apoffafy,
that
is
even
unto
death
5
if
he
commit -
eth
iniquity, and dyeth
in
it
,
that
is,
repents not
of
it,
before
his
death,
this
judgements
of
God
fhall
find
him
out,
as was
before
exprefed
5
If
by
his
Re-
pentance,
heforevent
not
his
calamities, he fhall end
his finning in
deflmecion;
in which expreffions
of
the perlons continuance
in his
Apoftatifedcondition,
and
ofthe
judgements
of
God falling
on himon
that
account
, there
is
not
the
leaft
appearance
of
any
Tautology,
or
incongruity
in
the
fence
5
the
fame
word
is
ufed
to
expreffe
diverte
concernements
of
it
;
which
is
no
Tautology
though
the
fameword be
ufed, yet
the
fame
thing
is
not intended
,
Tautolo-
gy reflehs
to
things not words, otherwife
there
muff be
a
Tautology
where e-
ver
there
is
an
7oue:s,
as
Phil
1.4.
toeommit iniquity, and
to dye
therein,
is
no
more
but to
continue
in his
iniquity impenitently
until!
death
;
now
to
fay
that
a
man
was
put
to
death for
his
fault,
becaufe
hé
committed
it,
and
còn=
tinned impenitent
in
it,
even
unto the
death,
which he
was
adjudged
to,
and
which
was infli&ed
on him
for
his
fault,
is
an
incoherent
expreffion,
it
teems
will puzle,
as
great
a
matter
of
Language
as
M.G to
make good.
M.G. endeavours
to make the
punifhment
threatned
in
the
words
(he
f
all
dye
for his
iniquity)
precifely
and excluf
vely
to
fignify
eternal!
death
(
which
the
former interpretation
doth
not
exclude)
which
he
is
no way able
to make
good.
what
he
offers See
t.
3'.
concerning the
incongruity
of
the
fence,
and
G g
g
3
tautologic