C.X[L4 t,;, Do.`t'ofPerfo( Sta its ufefulnes to promote Gofp.Obedience. 262 rail things4vhetherall. conditionall. 44. What condition in the Promife made to Paul A5.27. 45. Farther of that Promife, its infallibility and meanes ofAccomplilhment. 46.The fame con - frderations farther profecuted. 47. 48. Of Promifes ofPerfeveranoe,and what relations to per. forme in conjun &ion. 49. M.G. oppofition hereunto. 5o. Promifes and protefiations in conjunftion 1 Cor.10.12,1a. difcuffed. An abfolute Promife of Perfeverance therein evinced, 51- Phil.1.12,13. to the fame purpofe confidered. M. G. Interpretation of that place prépofed removed. 52. lieb. 6.4,5,9, to the fame purpofe infifledon, 53. Of theeonfiflcncy ni Threat- nings with the Promifis of Perfeverance. 54. M.G. oppofition hereunto: 55. Confidered and removed. What Promifes of Perfeverance are aflerted how abfolnte and infruftrable. Few ofHell and puniíhmenr twofold. The beate intended to be ingenerated by threatnings, nor in- confiflent with the Affurance given by promifes. 56. Five Confiderations about the ufe of Threatnings: the firft &c. 57, Hipocrites how threatned forApoftafy: of the End and Aimeof God inThreatnings. 58. Of theproperEnd and EfficacyofThreatnings, with reference unto true Believers. 59. FeareofHell andpunifhment, how farre a principle of Obedience in the Saints. 6o. OfNoahs feärefeb.1 I. 7. 61. M.G's farther arguings for the Efficacy of the Feare ofHell, unto Obedience in theSaints; propofed, confidered,removed. 62. r loh. 4.18. confr- dered. 6;. Of the Obedienceof Saints to their heavenly Father, compared to the obedienceof Children to their naturall Parents: M. G's monfrous conception about this thing. 64. How Feare orLove, and in whatfence are principlesofObedience. That which is done from Feare, not donewillingly, norchearfully. 65. HowFeare, and whatfeare hath torment. 66. Of the nature and ufeof Promifes. Clofe ofthe Anfwer to thisArgument. Twill beneedleflè to ufe many words unto the Difcourfe ofthe S: 1. C f]ksl4i firffSe&ion; feeing it will not in the leaft prejudice our Caufe inhand, to leave Mr Godwin in full poffeflìon of all the Glory of theRethoricke thereof. For although I cannot dolewith him in theExpofition given ofthat expreflion I Tim. 6.t6.Godinhabiteth Tight.inaccefble,fome thing in my weake apprehenfion,tnuch more glorious & divine beingcomprifed therein,then what it is here turned afide unto;Neither am I in the leaft convinced ofthe truth Tb snrnJ$mue ofthe formerDifcourfe, in theclofe ofthe whole, affertinga deliverance tobe obtained from our thoughtsofthe Do&rineofthe defi&lionofthe saints, which he intitnateth to be, that it is anti-evangelicall, tormenting, and bringingfonles under bondage, by anarrow, and unprejudicate fearch into it, finding my felfeevery day more and more confirmed in thoughts ofthat kind concerning it, by my engage - ment into fuch an enquiry (which hath been obferved in this prefent Dif- courfe, as farce as my weakeneffe will permit; yet it being not in the leaft .11rgumentative,but for the whole frame and intendment of it Commune exor- dium, and that whichanyman of any opinion in the world might makeufe of, I (hall not infift upon it. 4. a. His fecond seilion containeth his firft Argument, drawne forth in the de- fenceof hisDo&rine ofthe pofbility (as hecalleth it, but indeed what it is, we haveheard) ofthe defe&lion of Believers; Ofthis, I prefume he intended no more ufe but(as a forlorne,) tobegin a light Skirmifhwithdverfaries, ordering it toretreat to his maine Body advancing, after, or defperatelyca- lling it away, to abate theEdge of hisCombatants Weapons, it is fo weake and feeble; arid therefore I (hall be very briefe in the confederationofit thus then hepropofeth it. That Doilrine which retidreth God free from the unrighteoref ieffe which the Scripture calleth the refpeflingofperfons ofBrien, is a DoPlrine ofperfa con- fflence with the Scripture, and the truth, The Doctrine which teacheth the poJbilityof the Saints declining, andthis unto death is aDoCirine ofthis import: Ergo. 0.3. Anf. a. The firft propofition muff be fuppofed Vniverfall, or' elfe the whole will quicklybe manifefied to beunconclufve. Ifit be only leidefi'nite, and fo equivalent(as it Beth) to aparticular,the conclufion is fromall particu- lars, and ofno force, as MrGoodwin well knoweth. Take it univerfally, and I fay it is evidently falfe, and might eafily be difproved by innumerable In- fiances.
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