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P.
I.
4;
2.34
Importance
of
the do&rine propofed &
its
neceffity.
2
which
God
is
abundantly willing,
that all
the
Mires
of
the promife
fiouïd
receive,
That
it
is
utterly
impoflible it fhould
befafe
guarded one moment, without
a
ph
i
7.169.
perfwafon
of
this truth, which
feales
up all the mercy and
grace,
of
the
new
Rom, 8. 32,
Covenant,
with the
a
mchangeablenefs
.andfaithfulnefs
of
God.
To
others,
it
is
33r34,3í
no
grace
ofGo'd, no
part
of
the
purchafe
ofChriff,
no
do&rineof the
Go-
Sec5.Apift.
g
setin.
Pnpi(f.
fpell, no foundation
ofcoriColation,
but
an
invention
of
men,
a deli
for
of
Sa-
Thornfon
Ae
tan,
an'gccafion
ofdifhonour
to
God.,
dif
onfolatïon
and perplexity
to
belie-
Intercis.
,u-
1
It;f.Diatr)n.
viers,
a powerfull
terrptatian
unto
finne
and
wickednefi'e
in
all that
doe
re-
Bertha
Apoft.
ceive
it
sanasem
°n-
A
Do&rin
it
is
alfo,
whofe right
apprehenfron
is
on
all
hands
confeffed,
con.
Xcg.
sniptasined.
to
be
of
great
importance, upon
the
accornpt
of
that
effeduall
influence,
4.2.
which
it hath and will have,into our
walking with
God,
which
fay
fomè,
is,
Gen.r7..
to
Love, Humility, Thanhefulnefs, Feare, Fruitfulnefr
:'.To.
Faljy, Stubbornefs
Pfa1.2..
Rébellion
°
Difolutenef
°
Negli
g
ence
fay
others.
The
great
°conidence
ex
reied
Heb. 1o.
16,
by
men concerning
the
evidence
and certainty
of
their
feverall perfwafions
17,18,
4,
whether
defending
or
oppofing
the Do&rine
under
confideration,
the
one
part
20,21,22.
2
cot.9:r.
profeffìng
the
truth thereof
to
be
of
equail ftability with the promifes
of
2
Fa.
1.3,4,
God, and molt plentifully delivered
in
the
Scriptures
others
(
at
leaft
one
who
is
thought
to
be
pars
magna
of
his
Companions)
that
if
it be
afferted
in
any
place
of
the
Scripture,
it were
enough
tomale
wife
&
impartiall men
to
call
the
authority
thereof
into
queflion,muft needs
invite men
to
tine
aóde
to
fee
about
what this
earn&
cornea
is:
&
psis
it
ell tarn
posens,who dares
thus
undertake
to
remove-not only antient Landmarkes & boundaries
of
dodrines
among the
Saints,
but
mountains
of
bref,&
the
hils
about Terafalem,which
we
hoped would ftandfait for
ever?
,The
concernment
then
of
the
Glory
of
God,
and
the
Honour
of
the
Lord
Tefus
C.
brill, with
the
-interefl'
of
the
fonles
of
the
Saints,
being
fo
wrapt up,and
that
confeffedly
on.
all hands
,
in
the
Doctrine
propofed,
I am
not out
of
hope
that the
plaine difcourfing
of
it from
the
word
of
truth,
may
be
as
a
word in
feafon
Itke apples
of
gold
in
Pillares
of
filver.
4.
3.
Moreover,befides
the
generali importance
of that
do&rine
in
all times
and
feafons,
the
wretched prallizes
of
many in
the
daies
wherein we live,
and
the
induftrious
attempts ofothers
in
their
Teachings,
for
the fubverting, and
cartingit
down
from its
excellency,
and
that
place which
it hath long held
in
the
Churches
ofChrift;
and hearts
of
all the
Saints
of
Cod,
have
rendred the
confideration
of
it, at
this
time
neceffary.
For the
Firft: thefe
are
daies, wherein we
have
as
fad and
tremendious ex-
4. 4.
amples
of
Apogacy,
backsliding,
and
falling from
,high
and
glorious
pitches-
in profeffion,
as
any Age can
paralleli
:
As
many
f
acres
cart
from héaven
, As
Revel. 12.4.
many
trees
pluckt
up
by
the rootes,
as
manyflately
buildings
by
winde,raine,
Joa.
12.
anditorme,
call
to
the
ground,
as
many Sonsofperditiondifcovered,
as
many
Moth.
7.26,
wafhed
twine
returning
to
their mire,
as
many
Demases
going after
the prefent
27.
2Thet2.8. evill
World,
and
men
going out
from
the
Church which were never
truly
and
2
rer.
1.
20,
properly
of
it,as
many Sonnes
of
the
morning and Children
of
high
4.10.
illumá-
2I,
22.
nation & gifts
Petting
in
darknefs,&
that
of
all
forts,as ever,in fofhort
a
fpace
2
Tim.
Jolt
3.
19.
oftime,
fence
the name
of
Chrift was
known upon
the
Earth.
Whatthrough
He b.
6.4
5.
thedeviáting
of
tometo the
wayerof
the
World,
and the Lulls of
theflejbt
6°
what
ofothers,
to
fpirituall wickedneffes and abominations
a
it
is
feldome
that we
fee
a
Pro
fe
[sor
to
hold out in
the
Glory
of
his
Profeffion
to
the end.
I
IhaIl -not
now difcourfe
of
the particular
caufes hereof,
with the temptations
and advantages
of
Satan,
that
feem
to
be
peculiar
to
this
feafon,
but
only
thus
take
notice
of
the
thing it
felfe, as
that
which preffeth for,
and
rendreth
the
confr_deration
ofthe
do&tine propofed not
only feafonable:but
neceffary,.
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