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1. THe Dissuasive expresses three main particulars.
1. The proper subject of damnable Errors, viz. wicked, Lawless persons.
2. The contagious danger thereof; good men, themselves being too ready to be led away thereby, and so to fall from their own stedfastness.
3. The singular method of self-preservation from it, by
improving of all divine Warnings, to the faithful keeping of our selves, in our stedfastness.
2. The Persuasive in ver. 18. Exposes also three choyce things to our consideration.
1. The chief Ingredients of our spiritual Antidote, Viz. the Grace and Knowledge of Christ
2. The gradual compleating and fitting therereof, by growing therein.
3. The due Application of the same in Opposition to that infectious Venom, by a proportionable Improvement or this Antidote; implyed in the particle [But:] but grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
These several Points are to be more distinctly viewed, to our present purpose.
1. From that special Attribution of Errour, to wicked men, which our Apostle pathetically expresses by the double demonstrative particle, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, whereby he Emphatically denotes their property and Interest in such a way of Error. We may observe to good purpose that,