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A85704	A treatise touching falling from grace. Or Thirteen arguments tending to prove that believers cannot fall from grace, as they were laid down at a conference at Yalding in Kent, examined and answered, with many absurdities of that doctrine shewed. Whereunto is added thirteen reasons to prove that believers may fall totally and finally from grace, and many profitable uses flowing from that doctrine. By John Griffith.	Griffith, John, 1622?-1700.	1653 (1653)	Wing G2006; Thomason E690_17; ESTC R202323	40,736	75

people giving all dilligence to add to their faith vertue and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse and to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity thus doing ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ but he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see a far off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins But let the servants of the Lord do so and they shall never fall viz. give diligence to make their calling and election sure by giving dilligence to add these to their faith c. It teacheth them to esteem highly of the ministry Vse 5 of Christ and so consequently of his ministers who are set over them as their feeders knowing that without they are fed they may pine and and so die this is a duty that the Lord doth enjoin his people to do and we beseech you brethren to know them which labour among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you and esteem them very highly in love for their works sake c. this it teaches Saints to do and joyfully to receive from them that food that is appointed for their spiritual nourishment and growth and not to slight their profitable admonitions which tend to the taking away any infection that may arise in them which if not prevented in time may grow to a consumption and so instead of thriving under the ministry they pine and wast and so at last die not for want of food but because of an infection that may hinder the concoction and so the food become unprofitable unto them which may be occasioned by their slighting them that are over them in the Lord viz. by slighting their labour and admonitions and therefore the Hebrew Saints were put upon this duty remember them which have the rule over you who have spoke unto you the word of God whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation and again obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your souls as they that must give an account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you c. Vse 6 It teacheth the servants of the Lord to set a high estimation on the word of God they knowing that to be sincere milk by which they must be fed and grow the good servant of the Lord the Prophet David did highly esteem of the word of the Lord saith he princes have persecuted me without cause but my heart standeth in awe of thy word I rejoice at thy word as one that findeth great spoil again mine eyes prevent the night watches that I might meditate in thy word so likewise the Prophet Jeremiah thy words were found and I did eat them and thy words were unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart c. to this duty the Apostle of our Lord doth presse believers wherefore laie apart all filthinesse and superfluity of naughtinesse and receive with meeknesse the ingraffed word which is able to save your souls how sweet are thy words unto my tast saith David thus to do doth this truth teach us because whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed but he that feareth the commandements shall be rawarded and again wherefore thus saith the holy one of Israel because ye have dispised this word and trust in oppression and perversenesse and stay thereon therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out in a high wall whose breaking commeth suddenly at an instant for all those things hath mine hand made and all those things have been saith the Lord but to this man will I look even to him that is pure and of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word the Lord is pleased to make gracious promises to such as highly esteem of his word but if we despise it we shall be destroyed oh how precious is the word of the Lord how should it then be disgested and received into our very hearts as our food our councel our light our lanthorn lest it be despised so we pine starve dy and be destroyed It teacheth the servants of Christ to esteem Vse 7 highly of Gospel ordinances of the precious institutions of their precious lord because they know that they are the conveyances in which God is pleased to convey himself unto them and because without their obedience unto and faithfull walking in them they are in unspeakable danger of falling to destruction therefore saith the Apostle John whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath both the father and the son again Christ saith if ye keep my commandements ye shall abide in my love c. he that hath my commandments and keepeth them he it is that loveth me he that keepeth my sayings c. the servants of Christ then must highly esteem of Christs sayings doctrines commandements c. for so did they of old the proud have forged a ly against me but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart their heart is as fat as grease but I delight in thy law the law of thy mouth is better to me then thousonds of gold and silver and again O how thy commandements have made me wiser then al my teachers for thy testimonies are my meditations I understand more then the antients because I keep thy precepts here may we see how this servant of the lord did esteem of the precepts of the lord and likewise what profit he received by his so doing what a sad estate and condition are they in that set light by ordinances that cast them behind them and break the commandements of the Lord and teach men so to do the lord Christ will make as little account of them one day for he saith why call you me lord lord and do not the things that I say as if Christ should say you call me lord but why do you so how am I your lord and you keep not my sayings If I were your lord you would keep my words my commandements you would set an high esteem of my ordinances and the like how many is there at this day that call Christ lord and yet have no love to his testimonies how many that have owned Christ in his institutions and yet have transgressed and abide not in his doctrine but slight his ordinances saying they are low things as if they were too high to submit to them or having submitted to them were grown too high to continue in them and yet they call him Lord the Apostle Paul prais'd the Corinthians for keeping the ordinances as he had delivered them unto them let this use be made therefore of this truth seeing if we transgresse and abide not

knowing that without it no man shall ever see the Lord holyness becomming the house of the Lord for ever to this end was their Redemption wrought that they should serve him in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of their life even so now yield your members servants unto righteousnesse unto holinesse but now being made free from sin and become servants to God ye have your fruit unto holinesse and the end everlasting life for God hath not called us unto uncleannesse but unto holinesse without holinesse there is no sight of God how then should the servants of Christ labour after holiness otherwise they are unlike God he is holy holy holy holy is the Lord therefore they must be holy as he is holy and he that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure therefore having these promises let us clense our selves from all filthynesse both of flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the fear of God blessed are they that do his commandment that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in thorow the gates into the City he that saith he is in him ought to walk even as he walked now Christ was holy for such an high Priest became us who is holy harmlesse undefiled seperate from sinners and made higher then the heavens we must be holy harmlesse undefiled seperate from sinners as he was for we must walk as he walked therefore we are commanded to come out from amongst them and be seperate and touch no unclean thing and have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them to follow holinesse will bring peace to the conscience glory to God adorn truth keep Satan at a distance strengthen the the things that remain keep us in the love of God make us appear to be trees of righteousnesse of the Lords planting that he might be glorified but if we be not followers after holinesse we shall never see the Lord in peace but rather be of that number that desire the rocks to fall on them to hide them from the face of the lamb let the servants of the most high God look about them it will be worth their while to make their calling and election sure and to stand upon their watch tower they have many enemies who Lion-like go about seeking whom they may devour what need have they to take to them the whole armour of God that they may be able to stand and having done all to stand how should they esteem of them that are set over them in the Lord and their faith follow considering the end of their conversion how should they esteem of the word which is their milk their light their Lanthorn their sword with which they must fight and contend against all oppositions both of the devil and the flesh the world pleasures profits and preferments thereof how should they make the word their councel in all their actions and not dare to presume in any thing above what is written least they be overtaken with the error of the wicked and so fall from their own stedfastnesse how should they beware and take heed of men false Christs false prophets and false teachers how should they try the spirits whether they be of God or no seeing many false Christs and prophets are already risen which deceive and beguile the hearts of the simple how should they meditate in the law of the Lord stand fast in the faith without wavering remember God in his way esteem of Christs institutions or Gospel ordinances they are Gods conveyances in which he doth convey himself unto them how ought they to walk humbly with their God and to indure affliction patiently to deny themselves take up their cross and follow Christ otherwise they cannot be his disciples how should they be fervent in prayer without ceasing least they enter into temptation to conclude how should they follow after fruitfulnesse holinesse faith vertue knowledge temperance patience godlynesse brotherly kindnesse charity for if these things be in them and abound they will make them that they shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ but he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afarr off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall for so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ FINIS POST-SCRIPT ALbeit it is most undeniably evident that we are now fallen into those last and most perillous times wherein it was foreseen and accordingly foreshewn expressely by the spirit that some should depart from the faith 1 Tim. 4 1. and we see it verified also by dayly experience men sometimes eminent in religion becoming lovers of themselves and lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God and strangely mannered in every respect according as t was foretold they should in the latter ages by Paul 2 Tim. 2.1 2. c. yet I know this doctrine will not be received for truth by many neverthelesse I have discharged my conscience as in the presence of God that believers therby might be put in mind to hold fast that they have the successe of which I leave to the Lord Rev. 1.6 1 Pet. 2.5 Chap. 1 4. Rom. 8.17 Luke 12.32 Rom. 3.11 1 Cor. 9.25 Jer. 2.5 Zack 13.1 Obj. Ans. 2 Pet. 2.17 c Gen. 6.3 d Jer. 12.13 2 Chr. 15.2 Jer. 2.17 Es. 1.28 Arg. 5. Answ Joh. 17.21 23. Luke 23.24 Act. 2.39 Mat. 23.35 Mat. 27.25 Joh. 14.15.16 Arg. 6. Answ a 2 Tim. 2.12 Mat. 10.33 b Luke 12.8 chap. 9 26. Mar. 8.38 Rom. 8.39 b) Joh. 10.28 2 Pet. 2 20. d) Gal. 5.1 e) Rev. 17.26 chap 3.5.12.21 Chap. 21.7 Chap. 2.10 7. Arg. Answ h) 1 Thess. 5 15. i Rev. 14.4 Arg. 8. Answ Heb. 41. Vers 11. 1 Cor. 10.11 12. 1 Pet. 5.8.9 Jam. 5.7 ch. 1.2 3 4. Arg. 9. Phil. 4.4 Rom. 11.20 21. 1 Kin. 20.11 2 Pet. 1.10 1 Pet. 1.10 1 Pet. 1.8 9. Rom. 3.11 Rom. 2.7 10. Argu. Answer Col. 1.22.23 Jer. 17. Esay 1.28 Arg 11. Ans. Esay 50.2.56.1 1 Pet. 1.5 Esay 51.2.2 3 4. Jer. 17.23 Zach. 7.11.12 Arg. 12. Answ 2 Pet. 1.9 Psal. 1.2.3 Jos. 1.8 Psal. 119 1.2.3-2.12 Jer. 17.8 Arg. 13. Answ Rom. 11.25 26 27 28 29. Obj. Answ Joh. 6 66. 1 Tim. 1 20 ch. 5.15 2 Tim. 1.15 ch. 2.18 Obj. Answ 2 Tim. 2.18 2 Pet. 3.17 Joh. 8.32 2 Joh. 8.9 1 Pet. 5.2 Act. 20.28.30 1 Pet. 2.2 Heb. 10.25 Mal. 3.14 see Mat. 24.4 5. Act. 20.28 Heb. 3.17 Col. 2.8.17 c. Rom. 11.21 Gen. 3 4 5. 1 Tim. 6.17 Rom. 11.12 Phil. 2.12 Cor. 16.13 Heb. 10.36 Luk. 21.26 1 Pet. 5.8 Heb 3.12 Col. 2.8 Mat. 7.15 Cant. 2.15 Act. 20.29 Mat. 24.4 5. Mark 13.33 Lu. 21.34 Mat. 5.13 Luk. 14.33 34 35. Heb. 3 12 23. Act. 20. Heb. 12.15 16. Mat. 24.5 Act. 10.29.30 2 Pet. 2.1 2 3 -1.1-3.17 Col. 2 8.18 Rev. 3.11 2 Tim. 2.15 17.18 1 Tim. 5.15 Jer. 2.5 com 11.12.13 27 13 -18 14 15 16 17. Ro. 11.20.21 Heb. 4.11 1 Tim. 4.1.2 2 Thes. 2.3 Re. 2 10.17 Rev. 2.26.27 28.3.5 Heb. 3.12 13 14. Col. 1.22 23. Ro. 11.22 Heb 10.26 27 -6.4 5 6. 2 Pet. 2.20.21 Jer. 2 5.11.12.13.-17.13 Rom. 3.4 Ephes. 2.1.2 Jude 12. Se 2 Pet. 2.17 Jude 12 2 Pet. 2.17 Heb. 6.7.8 John 15 2.9.10 2 Pet. 1.1.10 Eph. 1.4 6.11.12.13 Cor. 16.13 Rev. 22.18 Exo. 32.32 Heb. ●0 26 Rev. 3.5 Rev. 2.10 2 Tim. 4.8 Mat. 25.13 Mar. 13 33. Mat. 26 41. Eph 6.8 Col. 4.2 1 Cor. 16.13 1 Thes. 5.6 2 Tim. 4.5 Hab. 2. 1. Psalm 130.6 Re. 16.15 1. Pet 5.8 Mat. 4 9. * The devill oft times perswades men notwithstanding they forsake the truth they shall go to heaven but beware of him for he is a lyar Joh 15.19 Pro. 14.20 Heb. 2.1 Eph. 6.11.16.18 1 Cor. 15.33 Jam. 2.26 Psa. 144.3 Jam. 1.15 Ps. 133.133 Marr 14.57 Heb. 12.1 Jam. 1.4 He. 6.11.12 2 Tim. 3.12 Mat. 24.13 Gal. 6.9 Heb. 12.2 2 Tim. 2.12 Heb. 12.3 Jam. 5 10. Rev. 2.10 Heb. 10 36. Luk. 12.45.46 Jam. 5.8 1 Pet. 5.6 Jam. 4.6 Prov. 3.34 Rom. 11.20 Mat. 11.29 Col. 3.12 1 Pet. 5.5 1 Cor. 9.27 Eph. 2.3 Isa. 57.15 Mich. 6.8 verse 4. 2 Pet 2.10 Phil. 2.12 Joh. 15.2 Isa. 64.5 2 Pet. 1.5.6 7.8 1 Thess. 5.12.13 Heb. 13.7 Heb. 13.17 1 Pet. 2.2 Psalm 119 161.162 ver. 148. Jer. 15.16 Jam. 1.21 119.103 Prov. 13.13 Isa. 30.12 Isa. 66.2.5 1 Sam. 3.1 2 Joh. 9. Joh. 15 10.-14.21.24 Psal. 119.70.72.77.78.79 Luke 6.46 1 Cor. 11.2 2 Joh. 6.9 Rom. 12.12 Jam. 5 16. Mat. 16 41. Mat. 6.13 Mar. 13 33. Mat. 24 42. 1 The 5.17 Jam. 5.13 Col. 4.2 Luke 18.1 Ephes. 6.18 Psal. 65.2 Dan. 9.21 Joh. 15.7 Prov 8.32 33 34. Prov. 1.5 Eccles. 5.1 Esa. 55.3 Jam. 1.19 Jam. 1.22 Rom. 2.12 Mat. 7.24 Luke 6.47 Amos. 8.11 2 Tim. 2.12 Rev. 2.10 2 Cor. 4 17 Luk. 12.13 1 Co. 9.25 Mat. 16.26 Rev. 3.11 2.17.26.27 28 -3.5.2.21 21.7 Ephes. 4.27 Col. 3.5 Rom. 8.13 1 Cor. 9.27 1 Pet. 2.11 Heb. 12.14 Psal. 93.5 Luke 1.73 Ro. 6.19.22 1 Thes. 4.7 Isay 6.3 1 Joh. 3.3 2 Cor. 7.1 Rev. 22.14 Joh. 2.6 Heb. 7.26 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 18.4 Ephes. 5.11 Rev. 3.2 Jude 0.21 Isay 61.3 Rev. 6.16 Heb. 12.14 2 Pet. 1.10 Heb. 2.1 2. 1 Pet. 5.8 Ephes. 6.13 He. 13.7.17 1 Pet. 2.2 Psal. 1.9.105 Eph. 6.17 2 Pet. 2.17 Mat. 24 4.5 2 Pet. 2.1 1 Joh. 4 1.-2.18 Psa. 119.78 1 Co. 16.13 Isa. 64.5 Mich. 6 8. Jam. 1.12 Mat. 10 38. 1 The 5.17 Luk. 21.36 Mat. 26.41 2 Pet. 1.5.6.7 8.9 10.11

kept by the power of God and least that keeping should be for a little while he tells you it is an inheritance that fadeth not away Rom. 8.30 Ans. The strength of this Argument lyeth in two particulars First Gods unchangeablenesse Secondly in believers being kept by his power First Therefore to the unchangeablenesse of God I grant that he changeth not and yet it doth not follow but justified persons may fall totally and finally For Union and salvation are conditional First their entrance into it is conditional he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved Mark 16.16 being justifyed by faith c. Rom. 5.1 without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11.6 if by faith they are justifyed then not without it he that believeth not is condemned John 3.18 19. But some may say we are justified before in Gods account I answer then we were his people in his account also without or before believing which to say were to contradict the Scripture 1 Pet. 2. which in time past were not a people yet are now the people of God which were not under mercy but now have obtained mercy Rom. 9.25 26. Hosea 2.23 the Apostle Paul saith that Andronicus and Junia were in Christ before him Rom. 16.7 the Apostle John saith if we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darknesse we ly and do not the truth 1 John 1.6 and again He that saith he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments is a lyar and the truth is not in him ch. 7.4 by all which appears that we are not the justifyed ones neither have we union with Christ without believing and doing his commandements 1 John 1.7 Secondly we are continued in union with Christ on condition of believing and persevering in the doing the will of God and not without this the word of God doth teach us in many places For we are made partakers of Christ mark if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence stedfast to the end Heb. 3.14 Paul saith to the Colossians that Christ hath reconciled them in the body of his flesh through death to present them holy and unblameably and unreprovable in his sight if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled and be not mov'd away from the hope of the Gospel which ye have heard Col. 1.21.22.23 mark they then shall be presented holy unreprovable unblameable upon what terms why if they continue c. and so saith the Spirit unto the Angells of the Church in Smyrna be thou faithfull unto death and I will give the Crown of life Rev. 2.10 and so unto the Church in Thyatira he that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end to him will I give power over the nations verse 25 26.27 he that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white raiment and I will not blot his name out of the book of life but I will confesse his name before my father and before his holy Angels cha. 2 5. our Lord Christ saith in the fifteenth of John the second every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away some branches in Christ may become fruitlesse and so taken away by the Father so the Author to the Heb. saith that which beareth thornes and bryers is rejected and is nigh unto cursing Heb. 6.8 By this which hath been said it appears that we have no union with Christ but by believing and doing the will of God and that union with Christ is continued by persevering in doing the will of God and not otherwise God having promised eternal life upon no other terms Now this considered we may plainly see that although persons which have union with Christ may fall from it by not holding fast unto the end yet God never the more changeable because justification union and salvation are conditionall as hath been shewed God hath bound himself as I may say to give life to overcomming Saints but if any man draw back his soul shall have no pleasure in him Heb. 10.39 he hath promised his blessing unto fruitfull branches in Christ but fruitlesse ones he will take away John 15.2.3 So much to the Argument Now to the Scriptures alleged The first is Isa. 54.17 the supposed strength which is in this text lyeth in these words No weapon formed against them shall prosper Let us examine now who it shall not prosper against why saith the Lord this is the heritage of the Lords servants now the Lords servants are they that still overcome against whom no weapon shall prosper not they that fight for a time and are overcome at last let not him that girdeth on his armor boast himself as he that putteth it off 1 Kin. 20.11 in serving the Lord we have a promise as the Apostle saith who is it that will harm you if you be followers of that which is good 1 Pet. 3.13 so that this doth not prove but that believers may fall and so cease to be what they were and God not engaged in promise unto them for he saith Ezek. 18.24 but when the righteous man turneth away from his righteousnesse and committeth iniquity and doth according to all the abomination that the wicked man doth shall he live all his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned in his trespasse that he hath trespassed and in his sin that he hath sinned in them he shall dy c. Again this is a promise made unto Israel of and concerning their being established in righteousnesse after their scattering and rejection for their not receiving Christ for it relates to Gods performing Covenant with them in which Covenant they shall all be taught of God see verse 13. and all thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of thy children but not a promise made to any in the time of their warfare without the condition of standing fast taking heed overcoming and the like for otherwise there be weapons viz the firy darts of Satan and the like may and do prosper against many and we no promise to the contrary which proves that God one day will look upon Israel though now tossed and afflicted and turn ungodlynesse from Jacob in which day or at which time no weapon formed against him shall prosper for the Lord will assuredly establish Israel a people before him therfore this text doth not so much as seem to prove the thing it is brought for The second place alleged is Psal. 125.1 they that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Sion that cannot be moved but abideth for ever c. I grant as before that persons that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Sion unmovable so long as they continue trusting in him but some that trust in the Lord may let go their confidence as hath been shewed yea some have so done Jer. 2.5 compared with verse 12.13 thus saith the Lord what iniquity have your fathers found in me that they are gone far from me and have walked after vanity and are

become vain be astonished oh ye heavens at this and be horribly afraid be ye very desolate saith the Lord for my people have committed two evills they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters and hewed them out Cisterns broken Cisterns that will hold no water c. The last place is Jer. 31.1 The strength of which place lyeth in these words I will be a God of all the Families of Israel and they shall be my people We must have respect in this place to two things First to the persons Israel Secondly to the time when that is after those daies or the daies comming vers 27.31 Heb. 10 which is the time God will make a covenant with Israel in the performance of which Covenant God will establish Israel in righteousness although now they are seperated from him they are branches cut off but they shall be grafted in again and then shall they be his people and he will be their God and he will make an everlasting covenant with them that he will never turn away from them to do them good but he will put his fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from him Jer. 32. and let not any say that although it be not yet performed to Israel yet it is performed to believers I answer then believers may not teach every man his neighbour saying know the Lord for the covenant saith they shall not teach them after those daies so they shall not depart from him after those daies for then he will write his law in their hearts they shall all know the Lord from the least unto the greatest of them And moreover believers now may fall as hath been shewed which the spirit hath likewise expressely said that in the latter daies men shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits doctrines of devils 1 Tim. 4.1 but then they shall not and therefore those daies there spoken of are not yet come Thus these Scriptures which are here alledged or rather the supposed strength in them tending to the proof of the affirmation is taken away and removed The second thing is Gods keeping Justifyed persons by his power the places alledged is 1. Pet. 1.5 and Rom. 8.30 Unto which place in Peter I thus answer the Apostle takes an occasion to blesse God for his abundant mercy by which they were begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Christ from the dead in the fourth verse he tells them to what they were begotten viz. to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled that fadeth not away reserved in the heavens for you ver 5. who are kept by the power of God through faith to salvation mark I pray here are two things considerable First the inheritance is for those who are kept by the power of God Secondly the power God keepeth or begetteth by it is not a forcible or compulsive power as some supposeth but the powerful means that he useth as to both therefore the Apostle saith I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth Rom. 1.16 but we preach Christ crucified to the Jewes a stumbling stone and unto the Greeks foolishnesse but unto them that are called both Jew and Greeks we preach for so it is impli'd Christ the power of God the wisdom of God 1 Cor. 1 23 24. hence it is saith Paul my speech and my preaching was not with inticing words of mens wisdome but in the demonstration of the spirit and power chap. 2.4 the word of God is powerful c. Heb. 4.12 hence it is said we are begotten with the word Jam. 1.18 being born again not of corruptible seed but by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever 1 Pet. 1.23 so that the word or Gospel is the powerful means by which we are begotten to a lively hope so likewise is it the powerfull means by which they that are begotten are kept and so are said to be kept by his power for it is the word by which they must grow as new born babes desiring the sincere milk of the word that they may grow thereby 1 Pet. 2.2 all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousnesse mark that the man of God may be perfect thoroughly furnished unto every good work 2 Tim. 3. ●6 17 this powerful word the Scripture saith is of this tendancy as to the perfecting of the man of God Paul therefore laboured in the word Col. 28.29 David saith thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee Psal. 119.11 and again thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my pathes ver. 105. thus you see what it is by which we are kept viz. his word it is Gods power or powerful means by which he keeps those that are kept Now there is an inheritance reserved in the heavens for them that are kept by this word by his power and do not turn from his commandments as some do 2 Pet. 2 19.20.26 who so despiseth the word shall be destroyed he that feareth the commandement shall be rewarded Prov. 13.13 therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaff so their root shall be rottennesse and their blossome sall go up as dust because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts and despised the word of the holy one of Israel and therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people c. Isa. 5.24.25 Mat. 10.33 Mark 8.38 men that despise the word dispise the power of God as hath been shewed and therfore it is through faith this power keepes us as Peter there saith 1 Pet. 1. ● but some do not mix the word with faith and so are not kept by the power of God for it is through faith and not without faith c now they that fall from the faith as hath been shewed some do are not kept by the power of God for unto us was the word preached as well as unto them but the word preached did not profit them not being mixed with faith in them that heard it Heb. 4.2 and so consequently they may fall from the grace of union with the Lord Jesus buy dispising the growing word 1 Pe. 2.2 which is the power of God by which he keepeth men through faith to salvation c. The third Argument followeth Arg. 3. The same persons that are predesstinated the same are called they that are called the same are justified the same that are justified the same are glorified therefore called persons cannot fall away because they shall be glorifyed Let us first for answer to this Argument consider the text with the coherence Rom. 8.30 in the twenty ninth verse the spirit of God saith whom he did foreknow he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son c. Wherein take notice of