propoCed to confideration. C.XVII. any thingof his dealing with theSaints, in reference to their Spiritual! and Eternal/ Condition, that the Lord here reveales his will about; being only the tenourof his dealings with theHoufe oflfrael in reference to the Landof Canaan. 4. This is farther manifeft in that principle &RuleofGods proceedings in the matter laid down v. 4. which is not only a line from, but allodire&ly oppofite unto, that which is the principle in the Covenant ofGrace. ?hefoule thatfnneth hefhall dye. That foule and perron and not another, when in that Covenant ofGrace,he fetsforthhis Sonne tobe a propitiation through faith in his Bloud,giving hint up to deathfor all, caufing thejufl to dye for theunjufi, the foule that never finned for the foules that had finned, that they might go free. And I would faine know, on what folid grounds an anfwer may be given to theSocinians triumphing in the 4. v. againft the fatisfa&ionòfChriíl, noleffe than Mr Goodwin in the 24, 25. againft the Perfeveranceofthe Saints; Ifyoudo not manifeft thewhole tendency ofthis place, tobe accommodated to Godsprovidential) difpenfationoftemporal) judgements, andMercyes in re- fpe&ofthat people, and the Covenant whereby they heldthe Lando fCanaan; and not at all to refpe& thegenerali difpenfation of his Righteoulneffe and Grace in theBlondofChrift. Sothat 5. The whole purport and intendment ofthe Scripture under confide- ration is onlytomanifeft the tenour ofGods Righteous proceedingwith the peopleofIfrael in refpe&ofhis difpenfation towards them in reference tothe LandofCanaan, convicing them of their own abominations, confuting the profane proverb invenned and reared up inthe reproachof his Righte- oufneffe, beating them from the vaine pretenceofbeing punifhed for their Fathers fins, and tie conceit oftheir Righteoufnefle,which that people was perpetuallypuffed up with all ; HeLetts them know, that his dealing with them andhis wayes towards them, were equal) and righteous,in that therewas none ofthem but was punifhed for his owne fume t and though forceofthem might have made force profeffìon, and done force good, yet upon the wholematter firít or laft,they had all declined, and therefore ought to ownethepunifhment oftheir finnes; God dealing feverely, andunto death, and deftru&ion, with none but thole who either, wholly, or upon the fumme of the matter, turned away from his Judgements and Statutes. So that 6. This being the tenor and importanceof the words infifted on, this their tendency,aime,and accommodation to theobje&ion levyed againft the Righteoufneffe ofGod indealing with that people, this their rife, and end , theirfpring, and fall, it is evident beyond all ContradiCtion from any thing but prejudice it fell; that all theenquiries and difputes about them, as whe- ther the declaration ofthe mindeofGod in them be Hypothetical!or Abfolsite; what is meant by the Righteous Perfon, what byhis turning away, and what by thedeath threatned, (all whichexpreffions ofthe Text are in themfelves ambiguous and muff be limitedfrom the circumftancesofplace) are altoge- ther ufeleffe, andneedlefï'e, the words utterly refufing any accommodation to the bufinefí'e ofour prefent debate. So that 1 7. This dependanceofthe words fcope of the Context, defigneofthe place, and intendment ofGod in it, the accommodation of the whole dif- conrleto theremoveallofthe Obje&ion, and difproving of the proverbial' felfeJuftificationofa finfull People, the only dire&oryes in the ínvefigation ofthe true, proper,native,genuinefenceand meaningofthem, eyed, weighed nor confderedby Mr Goodwin, who knew how much it wasto his advan- tage, to rendaway thefe two verfes, from the body ofthe Prophets dif- Fff3 courfe; 405 e
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