C A P. XVII. Ofthecomrnination ofthe words, fhàll dye. 414 tautology ofthe expreffion ofit, be not fo underftood, hath been already re- moved: the comparilon enfuing inftituted between thefe words, and thofeof Cor. 9. ro. Should have been enforced with force confderation ofthe coin- cidenceof the fcopeofeither place, with the expreflìons ufed in them and though Repentance (which is alto added) will not deliver them from tem- porall or naturali death, yet it will and may as did Ahab hi part, from having that death infli&ed, in the wayofan extraordinary Judgement. Se&. q.. Mr Goodwinoffers fundry things, all of the fame importance and tendency, all animatedby the famefallacyes or miftakes, to make good the fence he infits on, exclufively to all others, ofthefewords, hefhalldy, and he tellsyou that, Ifthe Righteoufnafe fich men have done,Atli come into no ac- count,that it(hallnotprofit himas to his temporali deliverance, then it isimpoEi . ble itfhould profit him as to his eternall Salvation. But firlt, according to our interpretationofthe words, there is no neceffity incumbent onus,to affirme that theperfons mentioned, than obtaine Salvation , though we fay that eternall death, is not precifely threatned in the words; but yet that a man may not by the jufi' handofGod bepunifhed with temporall death for his faults and iniquityes, (asYofiah fell by the (word,) and yethavehis righteouf- neffe reckoned tohim as tohis great recompence ofreward, is a ftrain of doetrine that Mr Goodwinwill fcarce abide by I dare not fay that all who dyed in the rodderneffe ofthe Children ofIfrael, went to Hell, and camefliort ofeternall Life; and yet theyall fell there beçaufe oftheir iniquityes. But he adds. Sell. 4. Againe thatwhich God here threatneth againfi that double, or two- fold iniquityofbackEliding, is oppofed to that life, which is Promifed to Repen- tance, andPerfeuerance in their well-doing: But this Life is confeffed by all to be eternall Life, therefore the death oppofate to it, mu(l needs be Eternal/, or thefe- conddeath. When the Apo filefaith the wages of finne is death, but the gxift of God is eternall Lie through Chrifi jefas our Lord, Rom. 6.23. Is itnot evident from the antithe as, or oppofition in the tendency, between the death and life men- tioned in it that by that death, which he armes to be the wages offnne, is meant eternall death, how elfe trill the oppofitionEland? Anf. It is true the Life and Death here mentioned, the one promifed v. g. the other threatned in thofe infifted on, are oppofed, andof what na- ture, and kind the one is, ofthe fame is the other to be efteetnecl. It is alfa confeflèd,that the Life Promifed in the Covenant of Mercy to Repentance, is eternall Life, and the wages ofthine mentioned in the Law, Death eter- nall; but that therefore, that muff be the fence ofthe words when they are made life of, inanfwer to an Obje&ion expreffed in a proverb concerning the Landoflfrael, and when itwas temporali death that was complained ofa- fore in theproverb, the Fathers haveeaten fower grails, and thechildren teeth arefee on edge, (they did not complaine that they were damned for their Fa- thers finnes)that Mr Goodwindothnot attempt to prove; and I donor blame him for his filence therein. He layes yet againe. When God in the scriptures threatens- impenitent perfons with death for their finites, doubtlefehe intends andnreanes,-eternall death, or that Death which is the wages off/line. otherwife we have no fufficient ground tobelieve or thinke, that men dying in theirfnnes without Ripentam- fballfufferthe vengeanceof eternallfzre,not only a temporall ornaturall death;.which tbofe who are rsghteaur and truly eminent themfevesfufer aswell as they; theree ffore tofay that Godthrea- t ens impenitent Apollates(in the place in hand) with a temparall Death only, when aselfewherehe threatens impenitency, under the lighted guilt ofall, with eternall death, is (ineffal) to reprefent him as vehementandfore inhis difweivei from
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