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The Controverfy
as
Bated
by
Mr
G.
C
A
P.
1
Q:
2930.
in
the defcription
of
the
feverall parts
and
branches
of
it, be more fully
ma=
17
nifefted.
Now
becaufe Mr Goodwin,though he was
not
pleafed
to
fixe
any
orderly
$$.
29
ftate
of
the
Queftion
under debate;
(a
courfe he hath alto
thought good
to
take
in
handling
thofe
other Heads
of the Do
&rine
ofthe
Gofpell, where-
in
he hath
chofen
to
walke
(for
the
maine
with the Arminians)
in
Paths
of
difference
from the Reformed
Churches
)
yet having fcatterd
up
and
downe
his
Treatife,
what
his
conceptions are
of
the
Dottrine
he
doth
oppofe,
as
allo
what
he
afferts in
the
place
&
roome thereof, and Upon what Princi-
pies,
I
Ihall briefly
call, what
he
bath
fo
delivered,
both
on
the one
hand
,&
on the
other,to
an
account
:
to
make
the
dearer
way for the proofe
of
the
Truth,
which
indeedwe
own,and for
the
difcovery
of that
which
is
brought
forth to conteft
for Acceptance
with
it
,
upon
the
fcore
of Truth
and
ufe-
fullnefhe.
Firft
then,
for the
Marine
date
Saints
Perfeverance,
how
it ftands
ftated
S.
in
Mr
Goodwins
thopghts, and
what he
would
have
other
men
apprehend
thereof,
may
from
Hendry
places
in
his Booke, efpecially
Cap.
9.
be colleCted,
and
thus fummarily prefented,
it
is
(faith he
cap.
g.
sea.
3.)
a
promifing unto
men,
and
that
with
height
of
affiirance;
under
what
loofneffe
or vile praélifes
fo
ever, exemption
and
freedome
from
punifhment
:
fo
Sett.
q..
It
is
in
vaine
to per
-
fwade or
preffe
men unto the
aft
o
f
fach
meaner;
in
any
kiude
Which
are in
theri-
(elves
di(j
leafing
tothem,feeing
they
are
áfcertained
and
fecured
before
hand
that
they
fha not
fail
of
the end
however,whether
they
ufe
fuch
means
Or
no
:a
lofhous;&
Fu
force
conceit(Sel1.
5.)intoxicating
theflefh;with
a
perfroafon,that
it
bath
Goods
layedup
for
thedaies
of
Eternity;
Anotion
comfortable
and
betideing
peace to
the
IV:
ii
(Sea. i
g.)
in
admire
ring
unto
it
certaine
hope;
that
it
flíall
however
efcape
the wrath and
vengeance
which
k
to
come
;yea though
it
diforteth it
felfe in all
manner
of
loofnefe,
and
licentioufneffe
in the
mane
time.
A
prefumption
it
it
that
men
(Seel,
18.)
may
or
(hall
injoy
the
love
of
God
and Salvation
it
felfe,under
prac`lifes
of
all
manner
o
ffrnne
and
wickedneffe.
Reprefenting God
(Sea. 2o.)
as
a
God,
in
whofe
fght
he
is
Good
that
cloth
evil!: promifing
his
love,
favour and ac-
ceptance as
well unto
doggy
returning
to
their vomit,
or
to
fwine
Wallowing ("af-
ter their
wafbing)
in
the
retire
(that
is
to
Apoflates
which
that
believers
(hill
not be
,
is
indeed the Do&rine he
oppofeth)
as
unto Lambs
and
fheepe.
A
Dobírine
whereby'tis
polfible
for
me
certainly to
know;
that
how
lolly,
höw
pro-
fanely,
how debauchedly
foever
I
fhould
behave
my
pile., yet
God
will
love
means
he
doth the
holyef and
moll righteous man under Heaven.
-
With
thefe
and the
like Expreflions
doth
Mr
Goodwin
adorne and Gilde
over
that
Do&rine,which
he bath
chofen
to
oppofe:with thefe
Garlands
&
flo
wets doth he furround the Head
of
the
Sacrifice, which he
intends inftantly
to
flay,
that
fo
it
may
fall"
an
undeplored
"Victim,
if
not
feafonably
refcued
from the
hands
of
this
facred Officer.
Neither through
his
whole
Treatife,
do
I
find
it delivered
in any
other
fence,
or held out under any
other
notion
to
his
Reader
:The
Courfe here
he
hath taken
in
this cafe,
and
the
paths he
walkesin towards
his
Adverfaries,
feeme
to
beno other,then that
which was
traced
out by the
Bijhops
at
confiance,
when they caufed Divells
to
be
pain-
ted
upon
the
Cap
they
put
on
theHead
of
Hufs,
before they
cafe
himinto
the
fire;
1
do fomthing
doubt
(
though I
am
not
altogether Ignorant, how a-
bominably
the
Tenente
acid Opinions
of
thofe,
who
firft
oppofed
the
Papacy,
are reprefented and
given
over
to
pofrerity, by
their,
whofe intereft it
was
to
have them
thought
fach,
as
theygave them
out
to
be)
whether ever any
man,that undertooke to
publifh his
conceptions
to
the
world, about any
opinion, or parcell
ofTruthLdebated amongft
Profef1ols
ofthe
Gofpell
of
D
Chrift
3cì: