------, CAP. XVII. The Righteous man Ipokenof, who, your, togive any light or illuttration thereunto , by the fcope , occafion, or dependanceofthe parts of it one upon.another, does morethan once and Mr Goodwin instead, when nothing elfe prefents it felfe to his reliefe: It is true thewhole context of theChapter; grants the perlons fpoken of to be righte- ous in the performanceoftheduties mentioned in the Chapter, in oppolition to. thewickedman and his intentions , and wayes defcribed therein, in pro portion to the difpenfation of the Covenant, whole Rule &principle is pla- ced in the headofv.2o. which M. Goodwin direecs us unto;viz. the fettle that finneth it(hall dye; And as there is nothing in all this contrary to any thing in theExpofition byMr Goodwinoppofed,fo there is not any thing snore pro- ved, noronce attempted to be here by M. Goodwin himfelfe, than what is confeffed therein. It is acknowledged that the perfon fpoken of is trulyandreally righteous, with that kindofrighteoufnefie which is intended,andwherein ifhe continu- ed, hewas to receive the rewardof righteoufnefe, then under confideration; andyet, thoughfuch an one might bé truly and really uniteduntoChrift, yet there is nothing in the Text, nor Context , enforcing that fuch an one , and none elfe is intended here: and more in this cafe Mr Goodwin hath not to adde; nor doth he threaten us withany more than he bathdelivered, as he did upon the confiderationofthe tenor of the words , and our enquirywhe- ther they areofanhypotheticallor abfolute nature and importance. It is truehe addes, that Calvin in his Expofition on the place notwithfan- ding hiswarineffe to mannage itfo, as that theDo trine ofPerfeverance whichhe maintained, mightfufferno dammage, (which perhaps M. G. was not fo wary inexprefhing, contending fo much as he does , to manifest, that he had thoughts lying another way) andtherefore afl erting the prrfon here .fpokenof, to be aPerfonfeeminglyrighteous only;yet lets fall filch things, as declared nothing to be wanting in this Righteousperfon, but Perseverance. but thatCalvin grants in any expreffion of his, this perfon, or him concerned herein , tobe in fuck an efface, as towant nothing but Perfeverance, to Lender them everlafting- ly bleffed, is notorinufly felfe; neither does any thing in the expreflions cited byM. Goodwincome from the bodyof his difcourfe , in the Jeaft look that way, as might eafily be manifefted, did I judge it meet in aContextof this nature, to trade in the Authorities ofmen; fo that I cannot but wonder with what confidence, heis pleated to impofe fuch a fence upon his words; all this while then, notwithftanding any thing our Author hath to fay to the contra- ry, theRighteous Perfon here intended , may be only fuch an one, as was de- fcribed in the entranceofthis Confiderationofhis; and that it is not requifìte from theText, or Context, that he should be any other, is more evident than that it isto be contendedagainst. sea. 7. He deales with another Expofition of thewords , which hath no (mall countenancegiven unto it from the Scriptures, which for to prevaile himfelfe uponan expreffion or two, by the by, he fits downe in thewords of D. Prideaux Letd.6, and they are there. There is (faith he) a doubleRighteouf- neffe, one, inherent,or ofWores, by whichwe arefanl sfled; another, imputed, or ofFaith, whereby wearejufified; A righteous man may turne ofde from his own ,Righteoufneffe: viz. from hisHolinefe, andfall into very heinousfnnes: but it lothnotfollowfrom hence, that thereforehe bathwhollyfbakenoffrom him [ or outof him] the Righteoufneffe ofChrifl To this he adornes a threefold re- ply: t. TheDoïíor here prefents us with a pieceofnew Divinity , in making San- tl!ifrcation and 7ufiiftcation, no more intimate friends, than that one can live withoutthe companyandprefence ofthe other. Doubtlefeif amans juflification, may
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