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Arg. 4. If the Love of God, and the Love of Christ abides firm for ever to every Soul that hath Union with Christ, which is the Spring, efficient and moving Cause of this Union; then not one of them who have Union with Christ can perish. But we have proved that the Love of the Father and Son abides firm for ever to every Soul that has Union with Christ; therefore not one of them can perish for ever.

Arg. 5. If Christ died, rose again, and ascended into Heaven, as the Head and Representative of all those that were given unto him, and have Union with him, then, as sure as he is now in Heaven, they shall every Soul of them come thither: But this hereafter I shall fully prove, and clearly (God assisting) make appear when I come to speak to the next General Argument.

Arg. 6. If the Union between Christ and Believers is so strong and firm a Union intensively, that Christ and they become one Spirit so, that as if there was but one Spirit in Christ and in them; or what the Spirit is to Christ, and doth to Christ as Mediator without measure, he is to every Believer, and does for every Believer in measure, according to each Believer's Necessity and Capacity; then this Union secures every Believer from falling so, as to perish for ever. But this we have proved is so; the Spirit must either desert Christ (as you heard) or them, if ever the Union be broken; not Christ, that all will say is impossible; not Believers, because of the blessed Union they have with him; and also, because Christ hath promised that the Spirit shall abide in them for ever. Nay, this is also the absolute Promise of the Father to the Son in the Covenant of Grace: And as for me, this ¹is my Covenant with them, saith Jehovah, My Spirit that is upon thee, and my Words which I have put in thy Mouth, shall not depart out of thy Mouth, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed, nor out of the Mouth of thy Seed's Seed, from henceforth and for ever.