65 / 504
Holineffe
in its feverall
Acceptations.
C
n
p.
I.
4:
14,
i
g.
ing
of
many
Sophifticall
Reafons and
pretended
Arguments
are
obvious
to
9
every one
that
(hall
but
perufe
his
enfuing difcourfe.
Although the
Sub
fiance
ofthis
Do&rine
hath
been by, fundry delivered,-
4
14.
yet
leaft
the termes,
wherein
it
is
ufually
done, may
feeme
to
be fomewhat
too
General], and fame advantages
ofthe Truth,
which
in it
felfe
it
hath,
to
have
been omitted,
I
thall breifely ftate
the
whole
matter under
thofe
Termes,
wherein
it
is
ufually received.
The title
ofitis,thePERSEVERANCE
OF SAINTS;A(port
§.
is.
difcovery
of
whom we meane by Saints,
the
SubjeEI,whereof we fpeake,
and
what by
Perfeverance,
which
is
Affirmed
of
them,
will
ftate
the
whole for
the
Judgement
of
the Reader.
God only
is
effentially holy,
and
on
that
ac-
count,the
only
holy One.
In
his
Holyneffe
as
in
his
Beeing,
and all
his
Glorious
'11,1'01;1610
.24
Iq.
Attributes, there
is
an a&uall
permanency
or
fameneffè.
Heb.
1.1
o,I
I,I2.
No-
Rvcl. tg.
4,
thing
in
him
is
fubje&
to the
leaft (haddow
of
change
:
not
his
Truth,
dá14
not
his
Faithfullnefhe,
not
his Holineffe
5
all
principles,
caufes,
and
Infá
°4'
3.3284
reafons
of
alteration ftand at no
leffe infinite
diftance from him,
then not
ch.41.4
being.His Properties
are the
fame
with
himfelfe
and are fpoken
of
one ano-
`,11;4434.7:
ther,
as
well
as
of
his
nature.
His Eternall
Power is
mentioned by the Apoftle
ch.48,
r
2.
Rori.
I:
So is his
Holineffe
Eternall, Immutable.
Of
thiswemayhave
ufe
Reval.
3c.r4,17
M6,
afterwards, for
the prefent I treat not
of
it.
The
Holineffe
of
all
Creatures
Ian
is
Accidentali
and Created;
to
fome
it
is
innate
or
Originali,
as
to the
Angels,
I Sam i 5.
the
firft man,
our saviour Chrift
as
to
his
humanenatùre;
of
whom we
treat
¿;,,,,26.
not.
Adam
had
originali
holineffe
and
loft
it;
fo
had
many
Angells,who
kept
Month.
9.17.
not their
firf
habitation:
It
is
hence
argued by Mr
Goodwin,
that
Spiritual/
H
b1
.
9
gifts
of
God being beffowed,may
be
taken away,nowithftanding the
Teeming
con-
Ezek.36.26,
trary
engagement
of
Rom.
s
s.29.From what proportion orAnalogy this Argu-
27
,2gá,4
ment
doth
flow,is
not intimated
: The
grace
Adam was
endowed with,
was
Rom.6.4,g.6
intruled
with himfelfe, and
his own
keeping,in
a covenant
of
Workes:
that
of
Ephef.4.22,
the
Saints
fence
the fall,
is
purchafed for them, laid up
in
their
head, difpen-
23,24,25.
fed
in
a
covenant
of
grace; whofe eminent diftin
&ion
from
the former,con-
fifts
in
the
permanency
and
abidingnefs
of
the fruits
of
it.
But
of
this
after-
wards.
To
others,
adventitious
and added,
as
to
all
that
have
contrafted
any
qualities contrary
to
thatOriginallHolineffe
,wherewith
at
firft
they wereiindu-
ed,
as
have done
all
the
fonnes
of
men,
who
have
finned and
conefhort
of
the
glory
ofGod.Now
the
Holinefs
of
thefe
is
either
compleate,as
it
is
with
the
fpi-
rits
of
juft
men
made perfe
&:
or
inchoate,
and
begunne only
, as
with the
ref
due ofSan
&ified
ones, in this
life.
The
certain
Perfeverance
of
the
former
in
their prefent condition
being
not
dire
&ly
oppofed by
any ,
though
the
foundation
of it
be
attempted
by
force,
we have no need
as
yet
to
engage in
the
defence
ofit.
Thefe
latter are
Paid
to
be
fanEtified
or
holy
two
waies:upon
the
twofold account
of
the
ufe
of
the
word
in
the
Scripture.
I.
For(firft)fome
Perfons,as
well
as
Things,are
laid
to
be
holy,efpecially in
the
old Teftament, and
in
the
Epifile
to the
Hebreroes,almoft
conftantly
ding
the
termes
of
sanEfifying
and
sanelifyed in a
legali
or Temple
fignification,in
refe-
rence
unto their
being
feparated
from
the
reldue
of
men, with relation
to
Eod.28.36,
God
and
his
worfhip;
or
being confecrated, and dedicated peculiarly
to'
the
38.
performance
of
any
part
of
his
will,
or
diftin&
injoyment
of
any
portion
of
Lev,r.5.I
s..
Ezek.2x.8.
his
mercy:
thus
the
Arne
was faid
to
be
holy,
and
the
Altar
holy,
the
Temple
was
Heb.2.I,.
holy
and
all
the
utenfils
of
it,
with the
veftments
of
its
officers. So
the
ch.
Imo.
whole people
of
the
Temes,
were
Paid
to be
holy:
the
particular
refpe
&s
of
co-
Tob.
17.19.
venant,
Worfhip,
Separation,Law,Mercy,&
the
like,
upon
which this
denomi-
nation
of
Holineffe
and
Saintfhip was
given
unto
them,
&
did depend, are
known
to
all
: yea perfons
Inherently
uncleane, and perfonally notorioufly
C
wicked