The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance

2. For the close, which amounteth to this, That the certainty of reward, when it is uncertain (for so it is made to be when it is suspended on Actions that are uncertain) is more encouraging to Action, then certainty of reward not so suspended; I shall add only, (because I know not indeed how this discourse hangeth on the business under Consideration,) that we neither suspend the certainty of Reward upon our Actions, in the sense intimated, neither do we say, that it is assured to men, whether they act or no; but say, that the Reward which is of Grace, through the Unchangeable Love of God, shall be given to them that act in Holiness, & through the same Love shall all Believers be kept to such an acting of Holiness, as God thinketh good to carry them out unto, for the fulfilling of all the good pleasure of his Goodness in them, and making them meet for the inheritance of his Saints in Light; We do not think, mediums designed of God for the Accomplishment of any End, are such that conditions of the End, that it is suspended on them in uncertainty, in respect of the Issue before its accomplishment. Neither do we grant, or can it be proved, that God assigneth any medium for the accomplishment of a determinate End, (such as we have proved the Salvation of all Believers to be) and leave it in such a Condition, as that not only it shall be ⟨p. 252⟩effected & produced, suitably to the nature of the immediate cause of which it is, whether free, necessary, or contingent, but also shall be so far uncertain, as that it may, or may, not be wrought and accomplished.

2. For the close, which amounteth to this, That the certainty of reward, when it is uncertaine (for so it is made to be when it is suspended on Actions that are uncertain) is more encouraging to Action, then certainty of reward not so suspended; I shall adde only, (because I know not indeed how this discourse hangeth on the businesse under Consideration,) that we neither suspend the certainty of Reward upon our Actions, in the sence intimated, neither do we say, that it is assured to men, whether they act or no; but say, that the Reward which is of Grace, through the Unchangeable Love of God, shall be given to them that act in Holinesse, & through the same Love shall all Believers be kept to such an acting of Holinesse, as God thinketh good to carry them out unto, for the fulfilling of all the good pleasure of his Goodnesse in them, and making them meet for the inheritance of his Saints in Light; We do not think, mediums designed of God for the Accomplishment of any End, are such that conditions of the End, that it is suspended on them in uncertainty, in respect of the Issue before its accomplishment. Neither do we grant, or can it be proved, that God assigneth any medium for the accomplishment of a determinate End, (such as we have proved the Salvation of all Believres to be) and leave it in such a Condition, as that not only it shall be