Objections againf$ the Do&r.ofPerky. removed. C. X.4: A4. theTruth wehave under Confideration, much infifled on by Mr Goodwin, Cap: g. As r. That aperfwafionof the certaine continuance o f the Love of God to any one, is a ready way to make them careleffè, negligent, and to give up tbemfelves to all manner ofabominations. But what Vipers, snakes, andAdders, do fuch men fuppofe theSaints ofGod to be, that their new nature, their HeavenlyPrinciples (for what the fiefh in them,is prone unto, we now confider not,) .fhguld conclude, that it iegood to finne,that Grace mayabound;that,becaufe GodLoves them with an Everlafling Love, therefore they will hate himwith a perpetuall hatred: that,becaufe he will affuredlygive them Grace toferve him with reverence &Godlyfear, there- fore they will defpife him, and trample on all his Goodneffe; becaufehe will never forfake them, that theywill no more abide with him: What is in the inner man, what is in the newCreature, what is in the nature ofany Grace, wherewith they are indowed,that is apt, or inclinable to make fuch hellith Conclufions? Ifwe heare ofany fuch thing among the Sonnes amen, ifwe fee aChild, or a fervant refolving tobe profligate, wicked, f ubborne, pro- digall, becaufe his Father , or Matter is kind, loving, andwill not difinherit him, or put him away; we looke upon him as a monfter in nature, and think that it wouldbe good fervice to the interefl of mankind totake him off from the face of earth ; And yet fuch monfters are all the Saints of God fuppofed to be , who, if their Father once give them the leafl Afhürance of the Continuance of his Love , they prefently refolve to doe him all the dithonour , defpite, and milcheife they can : I appeale to all the experience of all the Saints in theworld, whether, ifany fuch thought at any time arife in them, that they may continue infinite, becaufe Grace bath abounded, that they may livcin all filth, and folly, becaufe God bathpromifed never to forfake them, not turne awayhis Love from them, theydoenot lookeupon it, as an hellifh abide of the Love of God,which they labour to crucifie,no leffe, then any other workeofthe flefbwhatfoever; Prefuppofe indeed theSaints ofGod tobe Dogges and fwine, wholly fenfuall and unregenerate, that is,no Saints, and our Doctrine to be fuch, that God will Love thetas, andCave them continuing in that ítate, wherein they are, and you make a bedfor Iniquity to ftretch it felfeupon;But fuppofe that we teach that the wrath ofGod will certainlyy come upon theChildren ofdifobedience, that he that Believeth not, fhall be damned, and that God will keepe his owne byhis power throughFaith unto Salvation, and that in , and by the ufe of7neanes, they (hall certainly be preferved to the end: and themouth ofin- iquity will Ike flopped. 2. They fay ittakes away that thongcorbe and bridle, which ought to be Inept in the mouthofthe flefh, to keepe itfrom running headlong intofnandfolly, namely the feare ofHell andpunifhment,whiih alone bath an influence upon it, to bring it tofubjetlion, andunder obedience. But now, ifthere be nothing in the world,that isofdefor the mortification and crucifying of the flefh , and the lulls thereof, but it receives im- provement by this Do&rine, thiscritnination muffofnecefiìty vani(h into no- thing. 1. Then, it tells that the fieth, and all the deeds thereof, are tobe cruci- fyed and (laine, Godhaving ordainedgoodworkes for us towalke in, That for the workes ofthe fieth thewrathofGodcomes upon the Childrenofdifobedience; & ifany fay,let see continue infine becaufe we arenot under the Law,or the con- demningpower o fitforfinne,but under Grace, itcries out, God for bid. Rom 6. 15,16. And faith, this isArgument enough, and .,Proofefnfflcient,.thätfinne H h 2, 235 § 14.
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