The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance

God, who Promiseth any thing, and affordeth means for the attaining of it, will direct them to whom those Promises are made, to the use of those means, as he doth the Centurion by Paul; It being incumbent in this case on his Holy Majesty, upon the account of his engaged Faithfulness to save them, he will yet have them subservient to his Promise in their endeavours for their own safety. Means may be assigned for an End, as to their ordinary subserviency thereunto, without any suspending of the Event on them, as a condition of an uncertain issue and Accomplishment. And therefore that this solemn Promise made unto Paul, whose Event and Accomplishment, up on the account of his believing God, he absolutely believed, & whose performance he foretold with out the least intimation of any Condition whatever, (only he bids them not throw away the means of their Preservation) should depend, as to its fulfilling, on such a Condition, as in respect of the event might not have been, (God who made the Promise not making any infallible provision for the Condition) and so have been actually frustrate, is an Assertion, not only not grounded on these words of Paul, setting out the suitable means of the providence of God for the accomplishment of an appointed end, but also derogatory in the highest to the Glory of the Truth and Faithfulness of God himself. But

God, who Promiseth any thing, and affordeth meanes for the attaining of it, will direct them to whom those Promises are made, to the use of those meanes, as he doth the Centurion by Paul; It being incumbent in this case on his Holy Majesty, upon the account of his engaged Faithfulnesse to save them, he will yet have them subservient to his Promise in their endeavours for their owne safety. Meanes may be assigned for an End, as to their ordinary subserviency thereunto, without any suspending of the Event on them, as a condition of an uncertaine issue and Accomplishment. And therefore that this solemne Promise made unto Paul, whose Event and Accomplishment, up on the account of his believing God, he absolutely believed, & whose performance he foretold with out the least intimation of any Condition whatever, (only he bids them not throw away the meanes of their Preservation) should depend, as to its fulfilling, on such a Condition, as in respect of the event might not have beene, (God who made the Promise not making any infallible provision for the Condition) and so have beene actually frustrate, is an Assertion, not only not grounded on these words of Paul, setting out the suitable meanes of the providence of God for the accomplishment of an appointed end, but also derogatory in the highest to the Glory of the Truth and Faithfulnesse of God himselfe. But