Weighed andAnfwered CA P.IV.4:10. any oftheir Reafonings, from rejoycing in the Grace ofGod, as to the Vn- lot changeableneffeofhis Loveto Believers, and the certainety oftheir Perfive- rance withhim to the end, thereinexpreffed: And I muff adde, that I amnot one jot enamored on their Objections and Reafonings, for all the new dreffe, which with force colt our Author hathbeen pleafed to furnifb themwith, fafhionably to fet out themfelves withall. Were it not for the confidence you expreffe inthe clofe ofyour Difcourfe,of your noble Exploits and Atcheive- ments in the confiderationofthis Text (which magnificent thoughts ofyour undertakings and fucc effe, I could not imagine from the reading of your Arguments or Exceptions, though on other accounts I might) I fhouldnot have thought it worth while toexamine it particularly, whichnow, to fafe- gard the Confolation ofthe weakeft Believers, and toencourage them to hold fail theirconfidence fowell eftablifhed againít theaffaults ofall Adver- faries, Sathan orArminian, I (hall breifely doe. Then (faithMrGoodwin,) Evident it is from the whole Tevour of the Chapter, that the words containe efpeciall Promifes made particularly to the yewes. Airf. Ifbyparticularly,you meane exclufavely,'to them, and not toothers, this isevidently felfe; for the Apoftle tels you Heb.8.6. to the end ofthe Chapter,that the Covenant here mentioned isthat, whereofChrift is Mediator and the Promifes ofit thofe better Promifes,which they are madepartakersoff, who have an intereft inhis Mediation. 2: (He faith) As evident it is, upon thefameaccount, that the Promife here mentionedwas not made only to the Saints orfound Believers amongft theJews,, who were butfew; But to the wholebody or generality ofthem. Anf. True, it isas evident aswhat before you affirmed,& that in the fame kind, that is, it is evidentlyfalfe; orelfe the Promife it felfe is fo; forit was never fulfilled towards themall. BntI referre you to a LearnedAuthor, who hath long lince affoyled this difficulty,and taught us to diftinguifh between a Jeww TW a ue4m ", anda Jew T e oo7Ç, ofIfrael to theflefh, and ac- Rom. 2. 28, cording to the Promife: He bath alfo taught us, that they are not all /five/that 29. areofIfrael. Rona:9.6. And uponthat account it is, that theword ofthis Pro- .Rom.9.6,7. wifedoth not faile, though all ofIfrael doe not enjoy the fruit ofit. Not that it is Conditionall,but that itwas not at all made unto them, as to the Spiritu- all part ofit, to whom it was not wholly fulfilled. And cap.] r. He tellsyou that it was theEleilion towhom thefe Promifes were made, and theyobtained the fruit of neitherdoth that Appendix ofPromifes poynted to , look anyother way. Whenyouhave made good your Obfervation by a Reply to thatLearned Author, we (hall think ofa Rejoynder. It istherefore added, 3. It teyet upon the fame account as evident, as either of theformer, that this Promifewas made unto this Nationofthe 7eroes, when andwhilell they were (or at leaf%confdered as now being) in the Ironfurnaceof the Babylonian captivity. v Anf. That this folemneRenovation ofthis promifeof theCovenant, was (not made to themwhen inBabylon, but) givenout to them beforehand, to fuftaine their hearts and fpirits withal], in their Bondage and Thraldome,is granted; and what thenI pray? Is it any new thing to,have fpirituall Promi- fes folemnly given out,& renewed upon the occafion oftemporall diftreffes? APromifeofthrift isgivenout to the HoufeofDavid, when in feareofbeing deftroyed,ifaiah 7.13.Soiit was given toAdamGen: 3.16. So toAbraham;Gen. 17. So tothe Church;ifaiah q,. 2,3,4. But farther it is faid, 4. From the words immediately preceding the paffagesojfered to debate, it clearly appears,that the Promifein thefepaffages relates unto, and concernes their 0 3 reduction
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