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Arg.

from the

text

to prove the perlons defcribed

to

be true

Believ,C.(VII.

thefe

we

fay

were never

true

Believers:

a

fmall

matter;

will

ferve

to

make a

4.

ii

man a

true

Believer,

if

thefe are

fuch.

What

tendency thisDoetrine

may

have

to

lull

men

afleepe

in

fecurity,when chrifl

is

not

in

them

of

a

truth,may

eafily

appeare,

&

be judged:

if

men who

are

diftinguifhed from

other

Believers,

by

fuch fignall

differences

as

thefe here

are,

may

yet

paffe

for

true

Believers,

Juttifyed,

San

&ifyed,

Adopted

ones,

folvi

mortales curas,

the

way

to Heaven

is

layed open

to

thoufands, who I feare will never come

to

the end

of

the

journey.

What

remaines

of

M.G's Difcourfe on this text,is fpent

in anfwering fome

44

obje

&ions

which

are made againít

his

interpretation

of

the

places.

it growes

now

late, and this talke

growes fo heavy

on

my hand,,

that

I

cannot

fatisfye

my

felfe

in

the repetition

of

any

thing

fpoken before,

.

or delivered,

which

would

neceffarily enforce

a

particular conftderationof what

M. G.

here

in

-

fïfts

on,let

him

at

his

leifureAnfwer this

oneArgument and

I fhall

trouble

him

no farther inthis

matter.

That

Faith

which

bath neither

root

nor

fruit,

neitherfound heart,

nor

good

life,

that

by

and

by,

readily

and eatly

yeelds

upon

Temptation

to a

tatail

do

fetlion,

not true Paving,

juflifyingFaith.

The

root

of

Faith

taken

fpiritually

,

is

the

habit of it

in

the

hearts

a

4pirituall living habit

,

which

if

it

reticle

not

in

the

heart,

all

affent

whatever

,

wants the nature

of

Faith ,

true

and laving

;

the

W

fruits

of

Faith, are good orkes, and new Obedience;

that Faith

which

bath

not Workes,

James

tells you,

is

dead; dead and

living Faith

doubtletlè

differ,

fpecifically.

Againe

Faith purifieth the

heart,

and

when

a

heart

is

wholly

pol-

luted, corrupted, naught

and

felfe,

there.dwelles no Faith

in

that

heart ; it

is

impofftble

it fhould be

in a

heart;

and

not at

leafs radically

and fundamentally

purify

it: farther

Mr

Goodwin

hath

told

us,

that true

Believers

are

fo

fortified

againft Apoftafy,

that

they are in only

a

pojfìbility,in

nor

probability,

nor great

danger

of total'

Apoftafy:

and therefore they

who

piefently,

and readily fall

away, cannot be

ofthofe,

who are

fcarfe

in

any

danger

of

fo

doing, upon any

account, whatever

:

but

that

the

faith here

mentioned, path neither root, nor

fruit,

good

heart to

dwell

in, nor good

life

attending

it,

but

inftautly

upon

triall

and

temptation,

vanifheth

to

nothing,

we

are taught

in

the

text it fè'fe:

therefore

the

Faith here mentioned,

is

not true

no

Paving

Faith.

That

it

bath

no root

is

exprefsly

affirmed.

V.21.

and

all

the

refl

of

the qualitycs mentioned

are

evidenced from

the

oppofition wherein they, who are thefe

Believers,

are

fet

unto true

Believers ,

they

receive

the

Word

in good

and

honeft

hearts,

they bring forth

fruit

with

patience,

they

endure

in

the time

of

tryall; like

the

houfe

built on theRock,when the houfe built

on

theSand,frlls

to

the ground.

One word more

with

thiswitneffe before

we

part

:

they who

receive

the

Word

in

good and honest hearts, and keepe it, do bring forth fruit with

pa-

tience,

and

fall

not

away

under temptation

:

fo

faith

the teftimony: but

all

true

Believers

recive

the Word

in

good and honest

hearts:

Ergo.

Which

is

the

voyce

of

Mr

Goodwin's

fourth

W

itnefe

in

this caufe.

The

2Pet.4.a8,a9,ao,21,22:is

forced

to

bring

up the

reareoftheTeftimo-

4.45a

ayes by M.G.

produced to

convince

the world

of

the

truth

&

Righteoufneffe

of

his

Do

&rine

of

the

Saints

Apoftacy;ending

his

whole Difeourfe

in

the mire.

Obfervatioas from

theText

or context,from the

words themfelves,or the

co-

herence,to

educe

his

conclufionfrom, he

infifts

not on.Many

excellent words

we have concerning

the

cleareneffe & evidence

of

this.Teftimony,&

the

im

poffibility

of

avoyding what hence

he

concludes,

we want

not,

but

we

have been too

often

inured

to

fuck

a

way

of

proceeding,

to

be now moved

at

it, or

troubled about it, were the

waters deepe. they would not make

filch

a noyfe.

The

ftate and condition

of

men

her;

defcribed

by

the

Apofile

is

fo