The Errours of the Carelesse by Necessitie Confuted [by J. Goodwin?]

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ...fall out of the same election unto condemnation. For if those words were not written in the Holy Scripture, if I, or any other should speak them, ye would say, they were false, and we lyars. And yet I am sure, rather than ye will submit yourselves to the truth, ye had rather seek a narrow bore to creep out at. What will ye say, if ye deny such an one, as have received all these chiefe benefits, that any man can receive in this World, yea no man can partake of greater gifts during this life; if ye deny such an one, I say, to be elect, surely ye are of a perverse, reprobate mind, forasmuch as ye plainly resist the Holy Ghost. Think ye that God giveth these his chiefe talents, which be such as no creature-can receive greater in this World, think you, I say, that God did bestow them, meaning to receive no fruit of them, but to bestow them in vaine? And if God did bestow them K Upon him whom he reprobated before the foundation of the World, whom he knew that of necessitje he should perish; then did he bestow them in vaine; which is false, forasmuch as the Holy Ghost willeth and cxhorteth us not to receive the grace of God in vaine; we may, abusing his grace, receive it in vaine, otherwise in vaine did Paul exhort us not to receive the grace of Godi in vaine. Of such doth also Peter speak, "For after they have escaped the pollution of the World through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are yet againe intangled and overcome, whose latter end is worse than the beginning." Ii Peter, n, 20. And such an one is compared to a dog, which returneth to his owne vomit againe; and to a sow that was washed, and now returueth and walloweth. in the mire. I pray you, whether were these elected, or reprobate, of whom St. Peter...