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P.
I.
4.
16.17.
What
fort
of
Believers
perfevere
to
wicked,
in refpe&
of
their
defignement
to
Tome
outward work
,
which
by
them God
will
bring about are
Paid
to
be
fan&ified
:
diftinguifhing gifts,
With
dëfignation
to
fome
diftint
employment,
is
a
bottome for
this Apel-
lation; though their
gifts
may be recalled, and
the
employment
taken
from
them.
ifai
r
3.3.
We
confeffe
Perfeverance,
not to be
a
proper and infepara-
ble adjunìí
of
this
fubjec, nor to
belong
unto
fuch perfons
as
fuch
: though
they may
hive
a
right
to it, it
is
upon another account:
yet
in
the purfuit
of
this bufineffe,
it
will
appeare
that
many
of
our
adverfaries Arguments, finite
thefe men only, and prove
that
fuch
as
they, may be
totally
reteéted
of
God
which
none ever denied.
4. i
6,
Againe,
the
Word
is
ufed
in an Evangelicall
fence,
for inward purity and
Lnk.,i
5.
reall Holynef%,whence fome
are
faid
to
be
Holy,
and
that
alto
two ways!:
for
Rom.
6.
t9..
either they are
fo really, and in
the
Truth
ófthe
thing
it Idle,
or
in
eftimation.
2Cor.7.t.
only, and
that
either
of
themfelves,
or
others-
That
many have accounted
Ephc
t.4.
themfelves to
be
holy,and
been
pure
in their
owne
eyes,who
yet
were
never
wa-
gs
4.24.
fhed
from their iniquity,&have thereupon cryed
peace
to
themfelves,I
fuppore
lk
4.7.
'13'
needs
no
proving.
It
is
the
cafe
ofthoufands
in
the world, at
this day: they
Fieb.12.14.
thinke
themfelves
Holy,
they
profeffe
themfelves
Holy,
and
our
Adverfaries.
'(.1'
i
n&qw
proove
(none
gainefaying)
that
fuch as
there
%ay
backflyde
from what
ór3
¡2
they
have,andwhat
they
feeme to.
have, and
fo
peril"'
under the
finne
of
A
ra..65.5
poftacy. Againe fome
are
fayd
to
beHoly, upon
the fcoreoftheir
being
fo
fa.
7.4849
in the fteeme
of
others ,
which was
and
is
the
condition
of
Many
falfe
Hy-
ifa.
9.45+4.
1
Thcf.5.3.
p ocrites
in
the
Churches
of
Chrift
both
primitive and
Moderne. Like
them
1,6e).2529.
who are
Paid
to
believe
in
chrifi upon the account
of
the
profeffion
they
l2
oh
i'tt.6.
t6.
made
fo
to doe,yet
he would
not
trail
himfelfe
with them,
becaufe he knew
what
was
in them,Such
were Judas,
Simon Magus
and fundry others
of
whom
thefe things are
fpoken,
which
they
profeffed
of
themfelves, and were
bound
to anfwer,.and
which others efteemed
to
be
in
them. Thefe
2
het.2.T.,
fome
labour
with all their ftrength,
to
make
true believers, that
fo
they
All.
synoA.
may cart the flumbling-block
of
their
Apoftacy in
the
way
of
the
Saints
of
Decvent.Art.
5.p
:266,267.
God,clofing with
the
Truth
we have in
hand.
But
for
fuch as
thefe
we
are
(7e:
no
Advocates: let
them
goe
to their owne
place
according
to the
Tenor
of
the
tiguments
leuyed againft them from
Heb.6.4.
2
Pet.
2.
And
other
places.
4.
i7.
Moreover
of
thofe, who are
Paid
to
believe;
and
to be
holy really,and
in the
Truth ofthe
thing it
felfe;
there are two
forts. Firft fuch
as
having
Heb.6.4.
received fundry common gifts and Graces
of
the
Spirit,
as
illumination
of
isam.ro.
io..the
Mind,
Change
of
affections ,
and thence
Amendment
of
life,
with
2
pet.
2.20.
fo
.row
of
the World, legall Repentance, temporary
Faith
and the like,
which
are
2
Got.7.
to.
all
True
and
Reallin
their
kind, do
thereby become
veld/sin
the great
houfc
Math.27.9,4.
of
God, being changed
as
to
their
ufe,
though
not
in
their
Nature,
con
-
Macke
3é
.t7'.
62.zou'
.
tinuein
Stone,
and
Wood
frill,
though
hewed and
turned to the
ferviceable
2
Kings
to.
nefle
of
Veffels,and
on
that
account are frequently termed
Saints
&
believers.
16"
On
fuch
as
thefe
their
is
a
lower
(and
in
fome afubordinate)work
of
the
Spirit
Hof.6.4.
2
Tim.2:
20.
effe&ually
producing
(in and
on
all
the
faculties
of
their
Soules) fomewhat
that
is
true,
good,
and
ufefullin
it
felfe,anfwering
.
in
fome likenefle
and
futa-
Ioh.6.34.
,
bleneffe
of
operation
unto the
great worke
of
Regeneration
which faileth
not.
Alts
26.28.
There
is
in
them
Light, Lave,7oy,Faith,
Zeale, obedience
6-c.
All
true
in
their
Math. 7. 26,
kind,
which make many
of
them
in
whom they are,
do
worthily
in
their Ge
2.
Revel.3.t.
neration, howbeit they attaine not
to the
Faith
of
Gods
Elea
,
neither
Maeke.4.1
6.
Both
Chrift
live in
them, nor
is
the
life
which
they
lead, by
the
Faith
of
the
Sonne
of
God: asihall hereafter be fully declared.
If
ye now
caflieere
thefe from
the
roll
ofthofe
Saints
and
Believers
about
whom we contend,
feeing