CAP. XL 246 ..4 A- gu g9 ~"^itétify ìz:i:...>v_.+1E--; `fi,e3-¡..,ìù,. «ág ;; t5efi,íia fiì - - CAP. XI. 1. The Entrance into an Anfwer toMr G's Arguments againft the Doftrine of theSaints Perfeverance: His fixt Argument about theufefulnelle ofthe Doftrine under coniderarion to the worke ofthe Miniftrypropofed. 2. His proofeof the minor Propofition. g. Confidered and Anfwered. Many pretenders to promoteGodlineffe by falfe Doftrines. M.G's common inrereft in this Argu- ment. 4. His proofes of thenlefulnelfe ofhis Doftrine untothe promotion of Godlineffe. ,. Confideredand Anfwered. The inconfequenceofhis Arguing difcovered. 6. The Doftrineby him oppofed,miftaken, ignorantly or wilfully. 9. Obje:ions propofed by Mr G. to himfelfeto beAnfwered. 8. The Objeftion,as propofed,difowned. Certaintyof theLove ofGod, in what fencea motive to Obedience. 9. The DoftrineofApoftafy denies the unchangeableneffe of Gods Love to Believers: placeth Qualifications in the Roome of perlons. so- How the Doftrine of Perfeverance promifeth thecontinuanceof the Love of God to Believers. r 1. Certainty of Reward, inconragingto regularA fiions. Promifes made to Perlons qualified, not fufpended up- on thofeQualifications. Meanes appointedofGod for theaccompli fitment ofa determined end, certaine. sa. Meanes not alwaies conditions. 13, M. G's Grange inference concerning the Scripture, 0. Confidered: The word of God by him undervalued, and fubjefted to the judgementof vaine men, as to its Truth and Authority. r 5. The pretended reafon ofthe for- merproceeding,difcufted: TheScripture the folejudgeofwhat is to beafcribed toGod, and be- lievedconcerning him. 16. The Doftrine of the Saints Perfeverance, falfely imposed on, and vindicated. 17. Mr G's next Objeftion made to himfelfe, againft his Dodd ne : its unteafona- bleneffe,as to the Argument in hand,demonftrated. 18. No Affurance of the LoveofGod, nor Peace left theSaints by the Doftrine ofApoftafy. The groundof Peace, and Affruanceby it ta- ken away. 19. Ground of PeaLs Cenlolation: s Cor. 9.27. the meaningofthe word ädgx,pte 20. Another Plea againft the Doftrine attempted tobe provedby M.G. That attemptconfidered.. Not the weaknelfe of the Fleih naturally, but the ftrength ofLuft spiritually pretended. 2s.The caufe of Sinne in the Saints farther dilcuffed. 22. The Powerafcribed by M. G. to men, for the ftrengthningand making willing the Spirit in them,confidered. 23. The Aptneffeofthe Saints to performe,what , and whence. The oppofition they have in them thereunto. 24. Gofpeil o- bediencehow eafy. 25. The Conclufion. 26. Anfwer toChap. s 3. ofhis Book propofed, H E Argument, wherein Mr Goodwin expofeth theo&rive un- der conteftto the triall, concerningits afefulneffeW to the pro- motion ofGodlineffè, in the hearts andwayes ofthem,by whom it is received, he thus'propofeth . Cap.13. Seef.32. Pag.333. That 438E1rine, which is according to Godlineffe and whore naturali andproper tendencie, is, to promote Godlineffi in the hearts and lives ofmen, is Evangelicals, andofunqueflionable comportante with theTruth; fuch is the Do- ílrine,which teacheth the pofbility ofthe Saints declining, both totally, andft- nally: Ergo, OfthisArgument he goeth about to eftablifh the refpeé}ive propofitions, Ø. z: fo as tomakethem ferviceableto the enforcement of the Conclufion heai- methat, for the exaltationof the Helena , whereon he is enamored: and for the major Propoftion(about which, rightly underflood, we are remote from conteftingwith him, or any elfe, and will willingly and cheerefully at any time drive the caufe in difference to Iffue,upon the ungularTeflimonyofthe Truthwrapped up in it) he thus confirmeth it. The Reafon ofthe major Propoftion, though the truthof it needethno light but its ozone to be Peen by, is, becaufe theGofpell it /elfe is a DoEirine,which isaccor- ding unto Godlineffe, a miniflryof Godlineffe; is a Dobirine, Truth, and Mi- fiery?, calculated, contrived, andframed by God with a fingular aptneffe, and choifeneffe
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