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4
C
n
r.
XVII.
The
Righteous man fpokcn
of,
who,
420 whom it
is
affirmed,
with
fome adjunet
in
the ufe
of
it,
as
.a
Tim.
3.
8.
Tit.
i.
16.
that
it neceffarily
imports
a difallowance
or
iìejeiïion
of
God,
as
to
the
whole
ítate
and condition
wherein they are
,
of
whom
it
is
allerted , joyned
with
a
profligate ditpofition
to farther
abominations
in
themfelves;
that
in
a-
ny place
it
imports, what Mr
Goodwin
would
wreftit hereunto
,.a
manfinal-
ly reje&ed
of
God, what
ever may be
the thought
of
others, he
will
not
af-
fect; and
what ever the tranflation be, I
would know
of
him,
whether
in
any
place,where
the word
is
ufed,he
Both
indeed underftand
it
in any
other
fence,
than that
which
here he oppofes; only with
this difference
,
that
in
other pla-
ces
it regards
the
generallcondition
and Rate
of
them
,
concerning
whom it
is
affirmed,
here only
the
condition
ofa
man,
reftrained to the particular
cafe
of
labouring
in the Minifiry, which
is
under
confideration
2
Cor.
s
3.5,6,7. the
word cannot
be extended
any
farther
, than
to
fignify
a
condition
of
men,
when they are
not
accepted nor approved;
which
is
the
fence
of
the word
con-
tended
for;
nor yet
Heb.
6.8. though
it be attended
with thofe feverall quali-
fications
of
nigh
unto curling
&c.
The
Apoftle afcending by degrees
in
the de-
fcription
of
the date
of
the
unfruitful!
barren
land,faies
firft
it
is á
<P6
,,@,or dif-
allowed by the
Husbandman,
as
that
which he
hath
fpent
his
colt and labour
about
in
vaine;fo
that
not
only
the
originali firft
fignification
ofthe
word,(as
is
known,)
Rands for
the
fence
contended
for,
but it
is
alfo
evidently reflrai-
ned
to
that
fence by
the context,
defigne
and
fcope
of
the
place,
with
the in-
tendment
of
the
Apoftle
therein
,
the
word being
the
fame
that
in all
other
places
of
the
writings
of
the
fame Apoftle, unlefle where it
is
meafured,
as
to
its extent and
compaffe, by fume
adjoyned expreffion,
which
is
interpretative
of
it,
as
to
the particular
place,
being
Rill
of
the
fame
fignification.
Mr Goodwin enfuingdifcourfe,
is
concerning the
judgement
of
Expofitors
upon the
place, particularly naming
Chryfoflome,
Calvin,
Mufettlus, Deodate,
the
Englifb
Annotators,
of
whom
notwithftanding,
not
any
one doe appeare
for
him,
fo
unhappy
is
he
in
his
quotations, though fundry
of
good
note,(and
amongft them
Pifeatór
himfelfe) doe
interpret the
word in
the
fence
by
him
contended for; knowing
full well
,
that
it
may
be
allowed
in
its
utmoft
fignificancy,
without the
leaft prejudice
to
the Doftrine
of
the
saints
Perfeve-
rance, as
hath
been manifefted:
of
thefe mentioned by
M.
Goodwin,
there
is
not
any
one, from
firft
to
laic,
but
reftrained the word
to
the
re
oachableneffe
or
inreproachableneffe:of
the
Apoftle,
in
the
difcharge
of
the
worke
ofthe
Mini-
firy,
the
fence
of
it,
which we alfo
infift
upon
,
to
fpend
time and labour in
fearching theexpreflïons
of
particular
men
,
weighing and confidering
the
coherence, defigne, and circumftances
of
their writings,
is
betides my
intenti-
on; the judgement of whatbath
been
affirmed,
is
left
to
the intelligent
Rea-
der,
who fuppofeth
it of
his
concernment,
to inquire
particularly into it.
:5.
What
is
added
of
the
Scope
of
the
place
Seel.
i
5.
pag.
280.
alone requires
a
ny
farther
confideration,
this he
thettthus propofeth
5. The(cope
ofthe
place
from
verre 23. evinceth the legitimacy
o
f
fuck
a
fence
in
both,
above
all
contradi
pion;
for
the
Apoflle,
having
alerted
this
for
the
rearm,
motive,
and
end,
why he
had
made himfelfe
a
fervant
to
all
men,
in
bearing
with
all
mens
n'eakneles
and
humors
in
the
courfe
of
his
Miniflry,
via.
that
he
might
be
partaker ofthe
Gofpell
(i.e.
of
thePaving
benefit
or
bleffìng
of
the
Got-pea)
with
them, v.
23.
and againe,
that
what
he
did,
he
did
to
obtaine an incorruptible
Crowne,
v.2
5.
plainly fhemeth,
that that
which
he
fought
to
prevent,
by
running
and
fighting atfuch
an
high
rate
as he
did,
was
not the blame
and
difparagensent
ofTome
fuch
misbehaviour, under whichnotwithfianding
he
might
retaine
the
Pa-
ving
love
of
God, but the
loffë
of
his
part
and portion
in
the
Gofpell,
and
of
that
incorrup
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