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1
Ce.
q,
k7
Vindicated
CAP.
XVII.
pirate
themfelyes from
finne
and
finners,
in fuch a
manner
and to
fuch a
de-
431
gree(not
difembling
but
anfwering their
coilvi&ions)
as
to
bleffe
them-
felves oftentimes` in
their
own
condition;
and
to
obtaine
an
ef}eem
with the
people
of
God
to be
fuch
indeed,
as
they profef
e
themfelves
to
be, and yet
come fhort
of
that
union
and
communion
with the Lord
Chriff, which all
true
Believers
are made
partakers
of.
It
is
not
of
any ufe
or importance
to
exa-
mine the
particular
places
mentioned
by Mr
Goodwin,
wherein
as
he
füppo-
feth
the
exprefiìonofthe
knowledge
or
acknowledgment
of
the,
truth
denotes
that
which
is
laving, and comprehended)
true
Faith,
unleffe he
attempted
to
prove from
them,that
the word could
fignify
nothing
elfe,
or
that
a
man
might not bebrought
to
an
acknowledgment
ofthe truth,
but that
he muff
of
neceffity
be
a
true
Believer:
neither
of
which he
doth, or
if
he
did,
could he
poffibly give any feeming probability to.
There
may be
a
knowing
of
the
things
of
theGofpell
in
men, & yet they may come fhort
of
the happineflè
of
them
that
doe
them; there
is
a
knowledge
ofChrifi,
that
yet
is
barren
as
to
the
fruite
of
holineffe.
3.
In the next place the
perfons
queried about,
are laid
to
be
fan&ifyed
4.34;
by the blood
of
the
Covenant;ofthis
Mr
Goodwin
layes (Se&.
2
r.)
i.e.
By
their
fprinkling
herewith,to
be
fprinkled fromfuch,
who
refufe
thisfprinkling:
as
like
-
wife
from
the pollutions
and
defilements
of
the world.
to be
SanElifyed when ap-
plyed unto
perforas,
is not
found in
any
otherfence throughout the
new
Tefiament,
unleffe
it
be
where Perfons
,
beare
the
confideration
of
things.
t
Cor.
7.
i
4.
But
of
this
flgnif
cation
of
the
Word
which
we
claime
in
this place,
infiances are
fo
frequent
and
obvious,
that
we
(hall not
need to mention
any
Anf.
If
no more be intended
in
this
expreflion,
but
what Mr
Goodwin
gives
us,
in
the
expofition
of
it
viz. that
they
are
folfprinkled
with
it,
as
tube
fepa-
rate
from
them
that
refufe this fprinkling
(that
is
openly)
as
likewife
from
the
pollution and
defilements
of
the world,
we (hall
not need
to
contend
a-
bout
it:
for men may be
fo
fprinkled,and have
fuch
an
efficacy
of
convi&íón
come upon them by
the
preaching
of
the
Croffe
,
&
blond
(bedding
of Chrifr,
as
to
be feparated from thofe who
profeffedly defpife
it,
and the open pub-
lication
of
the
W
ord,and
yet be
faire
from having
confciences
purged
from
dead
worker
to
ferve the living
God.
And fecondly
that
the terme offantlifying
when applyed
to
perlons,
is
not
tiled in any
other fence, than
what
is
by Mr
Goodwin
here expreffed,
is
an
Affertion
that
will
he rendered
ufeleffe
untill
Mr
Goodwin
be pleafed to give
it
an edge
by explayning in what
fence
he here intends to apply it.
Ofxhe
terme
sant7ifying
there
are,
as
hath been declared, two
more eminent and
known
fignifications.
Firfi,
to
feparate' from common
ufe, flare
or condition,
to
dedicate, confecrate
and let
apart to
God
by profefíion
of
his
will,
in
a
pe-
culiar manner
is
frequently
fo
expreffed. Secondly realy
to
purify, clenfe
with Spiritual) purity, oppofed
to the
defilement
of
finite
is
denoted thereby;
In
the
expofition given
of
the
place
here ufed by Mr
G.
He mentions
both:
Separation
,
and
that
chiefely,
as
the
nature
ofthe
San&ífication
whereof
herpeakes,
as
alfo
tome kind
of
Spirituali
denting
from finne:
but
in
what
fence
precifely he would have
us
to underftand
him
he doth not tell
us.
I
fomewhat qúeflion,
whether it be
ufed
in
the
Fpiftle
to
the
Flebrewes,
in
any other
fence
than
the former,
which
was
the
Temple
fence
the
of
word;
the
Apoftle ufing many
termes
of
the old
worfhip in
their
firfi fignification.
however that it
is
ufed
in
that
fence,
in
the new Teffament appropriated
to
perlons, without any
fuch refpe&
as
that
mentioned
by M. G.
is
fulficientr
ly
convinced by
that
of
our
Saviour
john
17.
t
9. Jgiy
iyW
_'s¡,caterdk,
I
i
i 3
expreffing