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Bev
vindicated,
as
alto our Englifli
Tranflation.
CAR.
XVII.
in
admonifbing, or cautioning men
againfiuch
mils,
which there
is
no
pofbility
437
for
them
to
fall
into, yea
and
this
known unto
themfelves?
Therefore
this
teflimo-
ny,
for
confirmation
of
the
Dot-trine
we
tnáintaine,
is like
a King
fnpon
his Throne,
againfl
whom
there
is
azo
riling
up.
Anf.
,
What
(mall caufeMr
Goodwin
hath
to quarrell
with
Beza,
or other
ß.
39
Tranílatours,and
with how
little
advantage
to
his
caufe this
Text
is
produced
!hall
out
of
hand
made appeare.
t.
The
words
as
they
cry
are,
ó
a'h.,00-
¿'
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5
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v
e,rosoils
its
áxr
levay.,
áN,á
miçsrae
its
sib:44ry0ty
4,4
s.
In
the
foregoing
part
of
the chapter, the
Apoftle
had
treated
of
two
forts
ofperfons..
I.
Such
as
fo
forfake
the
Affemblies
of
the
Saints
with-
drew
from
the Church, and Ordinances
of
Chrift; and
fo
by degrees
fell
off
with
a
totali
and everlafting backfliding:
of
thefe
the
Apofile fpeakes,
defcri-
bing their
wayes
and end, from v.2
5.
unto
V.
32.
thenceforward.
2.
He fpeaks
to
them
and
of
them, who abode
in
their
perfecutions,
and under
all
their af-
flï
&ions,
to
hold fait their
confidence; which
he alto
farther exhorts
them
to,
that
by patient
abiding in
well doing, they
might
receive the
reward;
concerning
thefe
both,
having
told them
of
the
unfhaken Kingdome
of
Chrift,
that
fhould'
be brought
in,
.notwithftanding the
Apoftafy
of
many,
of whofe iniquity Go
would take
vengeance
on; he
laies
downe
that
eminent
promife
of
the
Gq/-
fpell,the
juf
by
Faith fhalllive,wordès often
ufed,to
expreffe
the
Rate
&
condi-
tion
of
Believers,
of
thofe who are
truly and
unfainedly fo
the
Lord being
faithfull
in his
promife,
the
juf ified
perfon
fhalllive,
or
obtaine
life
everlafting.
It
is
the
promife
of
eternal'
life,
that
is
here given them ,
as
that
which
they
had not
as
yet received,
but
in patience
they were
to
Waite
to
receive
, after
they had done the whole
will
òf
God:that
any
of
thefe fhould
fo
draw back,
as
that
the Lords
foule fhould
have no pleafure
in
them,
is
direly
contrary
to
the
promife here
made
of
their
living.
The
particle
(4
)
in
the next words,
is
plainly adverfative,
and
exceptive,
as
it
is
very
many times
in
the New
-Te-
ftament; and
that
as
to
the
Perlons
of
whom he
is
"fpeaking
:
at
, the
period
is
full,
the
defcription
of
the
Rate
of
the
juft
by Faith
is
compleated,
and in
the
next words,
the
Rate
of
backíliders
is
entred upon:
iaz wuonfan,
referring
to
them, whom by their
Apoftafy,
and fubdu
&ion
of
themfelves
from Chriftian
affemblies
he had before defçribed
:
there
is
an
elleipfis
in
the
words
to
be
fupplied,
but
force indefinite
terme,
to
give
them
the
fence
in-
tended:
this
Beza
and our tranflators have done by
that
excepted again
ft
caufeleffely
by M.G. for
if
a
Tranflator
may make
the
Text
fpeake
fignifi-
cantly
in
the language whereunto
he
tranflates
it,
the
introdu
&ion
of
fuch
füpplements
is
allowed him.
2.
The
following expreffion puts
it
out
of
all
queftion
,
that
this
was
the
.
intendment
of
the
Apoftle; for
he
expreffely makes
mention
,
and
that
in
re-
ference
to
what
was
fpoken before,
of
two
forts
of
people,
to
whom
his
for-
mer
expreffions
are
refpe
&ively
to
be
accommodated, the
words
are
;gas
5
&w,
as
above.
M.
Goodwin
to
make
us
believe,that he took notice
of
thefe words,
bath
this
pafage
ofthem,Cas
it
h
alfa
expounded,in the
words
immediately fol-
lowing,
but
we are
not
(Ahem
who draw back
to perdition
but
&c.)
but
what
!pray
is
expounded
in
thefewords; that
drawers
back (hall
be defiroyed?
this
is
all he
takes notice
of
in
them;
Evidently the words are
an
application
of
the former
affertions
unto
feverall perlons
:
there
are
faies
he tome
who
are
e
i
ucr
?>
ús,
and
force
that
are
»t
was:
thofe
faith he
whoare
t
soznc
.
they
fhall
be
deftroyed, thofe who are
q'
was,
they
!hall
live
; Evidently and be-
yond
all
contradi
&ion,
aflìgning
his
former
affertions
'of, the
full
fhalllive
by
Faith, and,
if
any
man
/hall
draw
bath,
to
feverall perlons
,
by
a
diftribution;
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of