60 / 504
CAP.
1.
§:¡e
Apoflafy
of
Hypocrites
How
farre.
4
any
farther then
fhaking
is
ufefuli for
the
right and thorough performance
of
that
great Gofpell
duty
of
tryall andfelfe examination.
ß
7
Mr
Goodwin
indeed contends,
Chapter
9.
Secs.
8,
9,
so,
II.
Pag.
io8,
tog,
r
r
o:) that
if
we
judge
all
fuch
as
fall
away to
perdition
never
to
have
been
true
Believers
(that
is
with
fuch a
Faith
as
befpeakes
them
to
enjoy union with
Chrift and acceptancewith
God,)
it
will
adminiiter
a thoufand
Fears
and
fra-
loufles
concerningthe
f
undneffe
of
a
Malta
owne
Faith
whether
that
be
found
or
no, andfo
it
will
be
indferent
as
to
confolation, whether true believers may
fall
away
or
no, teeing
it
is altogether
uncertain
whether a man
hath
any
of
that
trite
Faith
which cannot peril!),
But
.An.
r.
Firlt,God
who
hath
promifed
to
make
all
things
woke
together
for
Rof
8.28.
good to
them
that
love
him, in his infinite
Love and Wifdome
is
pleated
Pfa1.3o.6,7.
to
exercife
them with great variety,
both
within and
without, in ref¢-
8. 17.
rence
to
themfelves and others, for
the
accomplifhing
towards them
all
the
ch94.7,8,9
I Pet,
3
goodpleafure
of
his
goodneffè
&
carrying them on
in
that
holy humble
depen-
'
c
°°
3.13'
ding frame,
which
is
needfull for
the
receiving from him thofe gratious
fu
-
t
Pet.
4.
r2.
gi
g
P
2
cor.
7.
s.
plyes,
without
which
it
is
impofiible they fhould be.
preferved.
To
this
end
2
The'
1.11.
arethey
often expofed
to
winnowings
of
feirce
winds
and
fhakings
by more
H$b.9.2
5,
dreadfvll blafts,
hen
any breathes in this confideration
of
the.
Apoflatizing
Ifa57i5
&
ofprofeffours though
of
Eminency.
Not that
God
is
delighted with
their
66.2.
fears
:
elou ies,which
yet he knows
under
fuch
difpenfations
they
muffcon
Per. 5.5.
fli&
with
all,
but
with the tryall and
exercife
of
their
Graces
whereunto he
Mat
24,
calls thetas;
that's
his
Glory,
where
in his
foule
is
delighted.
It
is
no fingular
á
no5.9.9.
thing
for
the
Saints
of
God
to
bee
exercifed
with
a
thou
fondfears
&
jealoufzer
Luk.
22. 31.
and
through them
to
grow
to
great eftablifhment,
If
indeed
they
were
fuch
üphe.6.n,12,
as
were
unconquerabk,
fuch
as
did
not worke together
for their
good,
fuch
Ephe.
4. 14
as
muff
needs
be
endleffel,
all meanes
of
fatisfa&ion
and
eftablithment beeing
1,(6.49.14,15'
refcinded by the caufes
of
them,then
were
there
weight
in
this exception;
but
&
63.9.
neither
the
Scriptures,
nor the
experience
of
the
Saints
of
God do
give
the
'ARs
9.5
leafi
hint
to
filch
an
"affertioh.
141.103.13.
Pet. t.
7.
Secondly,
It
is
denied
that
the
fall
of
the
milt
glorious
Hypocrites
is
in-
Rom.
8.38
deed
an
efficacious
engine
in
the
hands
of
the adverfary,
to
ingenerate
any
.
t
cor.Yo.13.
other
feares
and
Jealoufes, or to
expofe
them
to
any otheríhakings,
then
what
are common
to
them in
other
temptations
of
daily incurfion
,
which
God
Both
confiantly make
way for
them
to
efcape5
It
is
true
indeed,
that
if
true
believers
had no
other
foundation
of
their
perfwafion
that
they
are
fo,
but
what
occurres
vifìbly
to
the
obfervation
of
men
in
the
outward
converfa-
tion
of
thé
that
yet afterward
fall
totally
away,the
Apofiafie
of
fuch(notwith-
h
anding the generali
affürance
they have, -that thofe who are
borne
of
God
Joh.4.9.
cannot,
f
all
not
finne
unto
death, feeing
their
own intereft in
that
eftate
and
condition may be clouded,
(at
leaf
for a feafon)
and
their
confolation there-
upon depending
interrupted
)
might
occafion
thoughts
in
them
of
veryfad
confideration:
but
whileft betides all
the
beams & raies
that
ever
iffued
from
a falling
flaire, all
the
leaves
and
bloffomes
with abortive fruit,
that
ever
grewon
an
unrooted tree,
all
the
goodly
turrets
and ornaments
of
the
fairefi.
Joh.
5.
-,s
houfe
that
ever
was
built
on
the
fand,
there
ate
moreover
three
that
beard
witnefs
in
Heaven, the
Father,
Sonne,
and Spirit, and
three
that
Beare
witnefs
r
Joh.2.20,
on
Earth, the Water,
Bloud,
and Spirit
,
whilft
there
is a
teaching,
anoynting,
21'
and
affuring
earn
fi,
a firmefealing
to
the
day
of
redemption,
a
knowledge.
'that.
2cor.1.21,22.
we
are pafsed
from
death to life:
the temptation
arifing from
the Apoftafie'of
s
cot.
s1
s Hypocrites
is
neither
fo.
otent nor unconquerable, but
that
by
the
grace
of
Ephes. 1.14.
YP
P
9
2
Iii
Ephef.
4.30.
him
through
whom we
can
doe
all things,
it
may
be
very
well
dealt
withal!.
ttom.8.
,6.
This
I fay,
fuppofing
the
ordinary pretence
and operation
of
the
fpirit
of
grace