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r.XVfI.
,Pleb.
6.4,
f,
6.
Heb.
ío.
1.8,29.
Tall
ofthe
Heavenly
guifc
434
confine
it
to. I'fay
i. That
the word
as
it
is
applyed to
spiritually, being
borrowed and
metaphorical!,
not
in its
Analogie
to
be extended
beyond ma-
king
triall,
for
our
coming
to
fome
knowledge
of
a
thing
in
its
nature,the
ufe
of
it
in
one place,
cannot
prefcribe
to the
fence
of
it
in
another, no
More
than
any
other
anetaphoricall
expreffion
whatever; but
it
muff
in
the
feverall
places ()fits refidence,be
interpreted
according
to
the
molt
peculiar
rthrij
-
on
that
the matter trea
ted
of
doth
require.
If
then
M.
G.
can
prove
that
a-
ny
thing
in this place
under
confideration
enforces fuch a fence,
all his
other
inftances are needle(le:
if
hecannot,they are
ufeleffe.
It
might
eafily
be manifefted,
and hath
been done by others already,
that
in all the
places
mentioned by Mr
Goodwin,
the word
is
not
exprefsly
fig
-
nificant
of
any
thorough,folid
eating&
participation
of
that whichis
faid
to
be
tatted,
as is
pretended.
But
to
manifeft
this
is
not our
concernment; there
being no reafon
in
the world to
enforce any
fuch fence
as
is
contended for
in
the
place
under prefent
confideration.
3.
To
the
third
wherein he argues with
his
predeceffors
from
our
opinion
concerning
Faith,
a
briefereply
will
fuffice
:
That
a
faint,
make
perception
and
relifh
of
heavenly
things,
is
fuffcient
to
make
a
man
a
Believer,
is fo
farre
from being
our
opinion
,
that we utterly
difclaïme
them
from being
Belie-
vers
to
whom this
is
afcribed,
if
nothing
elfe
be added
in
their
defcription,
from whencethey may
be
fo
etteemed. It
is
true,
Faith
is
fornetimes
little, and
weakein
the
exercife Ofit,yea
a
man
may
be
fo
overtaken withTemptations,,
or
fo
clouded under defertions,
as
that
it may
not
deport
It
(elfe
with any
fuch confiderable
vigour,
as
to
be
conflatory
to
him
in
whom
it
is,
or demon-
ftrative
of
him
unto
others
to be what
he
is:
but
we fay
that the
weakeft,
loweft, meáneft meafure and degree
of
this
Faith,
is
yet grounded.
and
fixed
in the
heart,
where though it
be
not
allwayes alike lively,
and
alive,
yet it
is
allwayes
alive,
and
gives
life.
How farre
Believers may fall
into'
the
guilt
of
enormous courfes,
has
been already manifefted.
The
intendment
of
the ex-
prefiion,is.to difadvantage the
perfwafion he oppofeth.
We do not grant
that
believers
may fall
into
any
enormityes
, but
only
what God
himfelfe
affirmes
they
may, &
yet not utterly
be call
out of
his
Love
&
favour
in
.Jefus
Chrift.
Farther the
weakeft
Faith,of
which
we affirme
that
it may be
true
and
raving,
though it
may
have no
great perception
nor
déepe
tail
of
Heavenly things for
the
prefent, yet hath it
allwayes
that,
of
adherence
to
God
in
Chriff, which
is
exceedingly
exalted above
any
fuch
preception
of
Heavenly things whatever,
that
may
behad
or obtained without
it:
fo That
from
the
confideration
of
what hath
been fpoken,
we
may
fafely
conclude,
that
M. G.
hath not
been
able
to
advance on fteppe
in his
intendment,
to prove,
that
the
perfons
here
defcribed are
true
Believers.
9.34.
I
know
no
fufflcient
ground or
reafon
to
induce me
to
any large confidera-
tion
ofthe
other
two or three
expreflions
that
rernaine,&
that
are
infifled
on
by
M.G.feeing
it
is
evident
from
their
affociats,which have been
already exa-
'mined
that
there
is
none
of
them can (peak one
word
to
the
bufineffe in
hand:
{hall
therefore difcharge them from
any farther
attendance,
in
the
fervice
they have
been
forced unto.
The
next priviledge
infifted on which
to
thefe
perfons
is
afcribed,
is,
that
they
are
made
partakers
of
the
Holy Ghof'
.
In mens participation
of
the
Holy
Ghofl,
either the
guiftsor
Grace's
of
the
Holy Ghoft are intended.
The
Graces
of
the
Holy Choi}, are either more
common
and
inchoative,or
fpeciall
and
corn
-
pleating
of
the worke
of
converfion:
that
it
is
the
peculiar
regenerating
Grace
of
God,
that
is
intended
in
this expreflion,
of
being
made partakers
of
the
Holy
Ghoft,
and
not the
guilts
of
the
Spirit, or thofe common
graces
of
illuemnati-
ora