The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance

It is true,¹ unbelievers are (as you say) in our judgement, (and I wonder what yours is in the case) in a state of exclusion from the Kingdom of God, whether they perpetrate the works of the flesh mentioned or no: Unbelief is in our Judgement, sufficient of it self to exclude any one from the Kingdom of God. But yet withal in our Judgment (and we desire to know yours) it is impossible that Unbelievers (we mean those who are Adulti) should not perpetrate the same evils mentioned, or others of the import, all the thoughts, & imaginations of their hearts being evil, & that continually, & thereupon be farther exposed to the wrath of God, which is revealed against all that do evil. If therefore the discovery of a mans desperate condition, that he may be stirred up to labour, & strive for a deliverance from it, doth concern him, then these & the like passages do properly & primarily concern Unbelievers whose state with the issue of it, is particularly described therein. And to say (as our Author doth) that it is a vain thing for the Spirit of God to threaten ⟨p. 342⟩wrath to men upon the committing of sin, if by unbelief they are exposed antecedently to that wrath, is to question the wisdom of him with whom, (whatever become of us poor worms) he cannot contend. He hath told us, that all men by nature are Children of wrath and unclean, so far as not to be able to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, unless they be washed and borne again and yet we hope without the least deficiency in wisdom, hath farther revealed his wrath from Heaven, against the ensuing ungodliness that is committed by these Children of wrath to be executed in tribulation and anguish against every soul that so doth evil: not to detain the Reader, what hath been said, and shall farther be argued concerning the difference that is between Believers and unbelievers in their sinning, with that also which hath been spoken of the concernement of Believers, in these and the like passages of Scripture, sufficiently arguing that no such inference as is made for the confirmation of the Assumption of the Argument under consideration according to Mr Goodwins thoughts and apprehensions of it, can possibly be drawn out from them.

It is true,¹ unbelievers are (as you say) in our judgement, (and I wonder what yours is in the case) in a state of exclusion from the Kingdome of God, whether they perpetrate the workes of the flesh mentioned or no: Unbeliefe is in our Judgement, sufficient of it selfe to exclude any one from the Kingdome of God. But yet withall in our Judgment (and we desire to know yours) it is impossible that Unbelievers (we meane those who are Adulti) should not perpetrate the same evills mentioned, or others of the import, all the thoughts, & imaginations of their hearts being evill, & that continually, & thereupon be farther exposed to the wrath of God, which is revealed against all that do evill. If therefore the discovery of a mans desperate condition, that he may be stirred up to labour, & strive for a deliverance from it, doth concerne him, then these & the like passages do properly & primarily concerne Unbelievers whose state with the issue of it, is particularly described therein. And to say (as our Author doth) that it is a vaine thing for the Spirit of God to threaten