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6.
40,
d.
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p,z7.
prbpofed
to confideration.
C
a
P. -XVII.
as
he
is
journying,
going
the
right hand
way
you mill
meet
with
theeves,
may
be
doubtles
faid
to
fpeake
conditionally,no
lefTe
than
he
that
fhould exprefly
tell
him,Zf
yougo
the
wayon
the
right hand
you
Pall
meet
with
theeves.
Second
-
ly,what
cleare fence &
fignificancy
can
be
given
the
words, without the
fitp-
plement
of the
conditionall
conjun
&ion,
or
fouie
other terme
equipollent
thereunto,
Mr
Goodwin
bath not declared.
For
it
is
impoJfìble
for
thofe who
were once
enlightned
&c.And
they falling
away
:as
the
words(verbum
de
verbo)
lye in
the text,
is
fcarce in englifh a
congruous or
fignificant expreflion
Yea,
,mey.=od,,
es
in
the
syntaxe
and coherence
wherein
it
!yes
,
is
molt
properly and
dire&ly
rendered ,
if
they
fall away
.
As is
alfó
the
force
of the
expreffion, Chap. so.
26.
Yea
thirdly the connexion
ofthe
Tranflation
mentioned by Mr
Goodwin,
cloth
not
in
the lean
relieve him;
as
to the
delivery
of
the
words from
a
fence,
Hypothetical!. When they
fall
away;
(though,
his
when,
be no
snore
in
the
text
, "than
the Tranflators
if)
doth
ei-
ther
include
a
fuppofition,
that they
(hall
and
mutt
fall
awaycertainely, and
fo requiers
the event
of
the
thing whereof it
is
fpoken,
or
it
is
expreffive
only
of
the condition,wheronthe
event
is
fufpended;if it be taken
in
the
fiat
fence,
all Believers
muff
fall away,
if
in
the latter
none
may
,
notwithftanding any
thing in this
Text,
(fo learnedly reftored
to
its
true
fignificancy)
the words
only pointing at the
connexion,
that
is
between
Apoftacy
and punifhment.
Notwithftanding then
any
thing here
offered
to
the contrarary, thofe who
affirme
that
nothing can certainely be concluded
from
thefe
places
for
the
Apoftacy
of
any, be they who they
will
that
are intended
in
them, becaufe
they are
conditional!
Affertions, manifefting only
the
connexion between
the
fin
and punifhment
expreffed,need not
be
afhamed
of, nor
recòyle from
their
Affirmation
in
the
leaft.
For mineowne
part,
I confeffe,
I do not
in
any meafure
think
it
needful'
to
infift
upon the
conditionally
of
thefe affertions
of
the HolyGhoft,
as
to
the
removal'
of
any,
or
all
the
oppofitions
that
from them
of
old,
or
oflatehave
been railed, and framed again(t
the
Do&rine
of
the
Saints
Perfeverance;
there
being in
neither
of
the Texts
infifted
on, either
name
or
thing
enquired
after
:
nor
any
one
of
all
the feveralls enquired into, and conftantly
in
the
Scriptures
ufed in
the
defcription
of
the
Saints,
and
Believers
of
whom we
fpeake.
This
I (hall
breifely
in
the
firft place
demonftrate, and then proceed
with the
eonfideration
of
what
is
offered by Mr
Goodwin
inctppofition
there-
unto.
Some few
obfervationswill lead
ns
through the
firft
part
of
this
worke
defigned. I
fay
then,
s.
There
is
an inferiour
common worke
of
the
Holy Ghoft,
in the
dif-
penfation
of
theword,
upon many
to
whom it
is
preached,
caufing in
them
a
great alteration and
change,as
to
Light,
Knowledge,Abilityes,Gui
fis,
Ajjreíli
ons,
Life,
and
Converfation,
when the perfons
fo
wrought upon,
are
not
quicI¿ned,
regenerate, nor made
new
creatures, nor
united
to
Jefus
Chrift.
I
fuppofe
there
will
not be need for
me
to
inlft
on
the
proofe
of
this
Propofiti"-
on,the
truth
of
it being notorioufly
knowne,&
confeffed
as
I
fuppofe
amongft
all
that
profeffe
the
naine
of
Chrift.
2.
That
in
perfons thus
wrought upon, there
is;
or
may
be, fuch
an affent
upon
light and conviftion,
to
the truths
proofed
and Preached to them,
as
is
true
in
its kind,
not counterfeit,
giving
and affording
them,
in
whom
it
is
wrought,
profeffion
of
the Faith,
and
that
fometimes with conftancy
to
the
death,
or
the
giving
of
their
bodies to
be
burned,
with
perfwafitins,(whence'
they
are
called Believers)
of
a
future enjoyment,
of
a
glorious add bleffed
condition,
filling them-
with ravi(hed
affeerions
and rejoycings
in
hope,
which
they
profeffe,fuitable
to the
expe&ation they have,
of fuel
a
Rate and
condi=
tion.
423
0.
27.