The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance

All those who now oppose Mr Goodwin's Doctrine, do it either out of Ignorance, or to Comply with Greatness, and men in Authority, thereby to make up themselves in their Ambitious and worldly aims, and to prevail themselves upon the opinion of men: for what cause else in the world can be imagined why they should so engage? what though ⟨p. 306⟩they really believed, the whole fabric of his Doctrine wherein he hath departed from the Faith, he once (as they say) professed, to be a lye; A lye of dangerous and pernicious Consequence to the souls of men, a lye derogatory to the Glory of God, the efficacy of Grace, the merit of the Death of Christ, and the honour of the Gospel, and full of disconsolation to poor soule•; being in and under Temptation. What though they suppose it secretly to undermine the main fundamentals of the Covenant of Grace, and covertly to substitute another Covenant in the Room thereof, what though they have observed that the Doctrine they have received, was Embraced, Preached, prized, by all those great and blessed souls, which in the last Generation, God magnified with the conversion of so many thousands in this Nation, given into their Ministry whilst they spent their days under continual Afflictions & persecutions? what though they have the general known consent of all the Reformed Churches beyond the Seas with them, in their zeal for the Doctrine under consideration? What though under these & the like apprehensions, they proofs in the presence of God, his holy Angels and men, that the eternal Interest of the precious souls of men, is more valuable to them ten thousand times than their own lives, and that that is the sole Reason of their opposition to M. […] in his attempts against the Doctrine they have so received and embraced, yet it is meet for us to Judge, and for all to whom evil surmises are not esteemed to be among the works of the flesh, that all their opposition, is nothing but a compliance with, and pursuit of those worldly low and wretched aims, that they are filled withal. But as to those Persons before mentioned, what shall we say?

All those who now oppose Mr Goodwin's Doctrine, do it either out of Ignorance, or to Comply with Greatnesse, and men in Authority, thereby to make up themselves in their Ambitious and worldly aymes, and to prevaile themselves upon the opinion of men: for what cause else in the world can be imagined why they should so ingage? what though ⟨p. 306⟩